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REGULATIONS 


FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF 


OFFICERS OF CUSTOMS, 


UNDER THE 


SUPERINTENDENCE AND DIRECTION 


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SURVEYOR OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK. 





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GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 
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PREFACE. 


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Custom-house, New York, 

Surveyor'8 Office, January, 1870. 

^ The following Regulations, which are believed to era- 
^ brace so much of the Revenue Laws, Treasury Regulations, 
and Decisions as relate to the duties of the Officers of the 
Customs, who are by law under the superintendence and 
direction of the Surveyor, are promulgated for the informa¬ 
tion and guidance of such Officers. It is required that the 
Officers shall make themselves familiar with their several 
duties as prescribed therein, and that they will, in the 
performance of such duties, conform strictly thereto. 

While neglect of duty, or violation of the law, or of these 
Regulations will be considered a sufficient cause for sus¬ 
pension and removal from office, and will subject the Officer 
to such penalties as the laws inflict, those Officers who 
are faithful and efficient, will always be sustained in the 
proper discharge of their duties. 

Officers are desired to communicate in person, freely and 
frankly, with the Surveyor, upon all matters pertaining to 
their duties, or having reference to frauds upon the Revenue; 
and whenever an Officer is unable to find in these Regula¬ 
tions information on any given case, or is in doubt as to 
the proper application thereof, he should apply at once to 
the Surveyor for specific instructions. 

In case an Officer should know of any impropriety on 
the part of another Officer, or of any violation of the Revenue 
Law by any person, it is his duty to report his informa¬ 
tion promptly to the Surveyor, that the evil may be cor¬ 
rected. 

ALONZO B. CORNELL, 

Surveyor. 



ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES. 


H. D.— Heyl’s Digest. —Statutes of the Uuited States re¬ 
lating to Revenue, Commerce, and Navigation, 
compiled by Lewis Heyl, of the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment, 1868. 

Gen. Reg., 1857.—General Regulations under the Revenue 
and Collection Laws, Treasury Department, 1857. 

Revised Reg., 1869.—Revised Customs Regulations, Treas¬ 
ury Department, 1869. 

Department Circular or Letter. —Circulars or Let¬ 
ters of the Secretary of the Treasury. 

Synopsis of Decisions. —By the Secretary of the Treasury. 

Acts of Congress are referred to by the date of their 
approval. 


INDEX 


Page. 

The Collection District of New York. 1 

The Surveyor of the Port. 1 

The Deputy Surveyors. 2 

The Surveyor’s Office. 2 

The Revenue Steamers. 3 

The Telegraph Operators. 4 

The Inspector Assisting the Survey'or. 5 

The Boarding Officer . 6 

The Assistant Boarding Officers. 7 

Discharging Officers. 8 

I. Assignment to Duty, &c. 8 

II. Duties on being Assigned to a Vessel. 9 

III. Searching and Sealing Vessels. 11 

IV. Letter-Bags and Letters. 12 

V. Sea-Stores. 14 

VI. Samples, Specie, and Valuables. 15 

VII. Passengers’ Baggage. 16 

VIII. Delivery of Cargo. 21 

IX. Duty-Paid Permits. 22 

X. Wines and Distilled Spirits. 25 

XI. Free Permits. 26 

XII. Warehouse Orders. 27 

XIII. General Orders. 29 

XIV. Weighing, Gauging, and Marking. 30 

XV. Cartage and Lighterage. 31 

XVI. Exports direct from Vessel and Vessel Warehouse.. 35 

XVII. Delivery of Coal and Salt. 37 

XVIII. Taking in Cargo or Ballast. 38 

XIX. Overtime. 38 































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INDEX. 


Dicharging Officers— Continued. Page. 

XX. Discharging Books. 40 

XXI. Returns of Cargo. 41 

XXII. Errors and Mistakes. 45 

XXIII. Prohibited Importations. 46 

XXIV. Penalties for Obstructing Officers. 48 

XXV. Powers and Authorities of Officers. 51 

XXVI. Prohibitions and Penalties. 54 

XXVII. Seizures. 55 

XXVIII. Residence and Leave of Absence. 56 

The Inspectresses. 57 

The Coast Inspectors. 58 

District Officers. 59 

I. Assignments. 59 

II. Attendance and Offices. 59 

III. Daily Reports to be made. 60 

IV. To Examine and Discharge Vessels. 60 

V. Exports, Transfers, &c. 61 

VI. Export Entries and Orders thereon. 61 

VII. Delivery of Merchandise to the Surveyor. 62 

VIII. Transfer to Dist. Officer for Shipment. 64 

IX. Certificates of Shipment. 65 

X. Short Shipments. 65 

XI. Filling up Packages. 66 

XII. Disposition of Merchandise not Shipped. 67 

XIII. Returns of Entries and Certificates. 67 

XIV. Penalty for making False Certificates. 67 

XV. Special Orders for Shipment. 68 

XVI. Delivery, &c., of Coastwise Bonded Goods. 68 

XVII. Transfer of Surplus Sea-Stores or Merchandise. 70 

XVIII. Examination of Coasting Vessels. 71 

XIX. District Officers’ Records. 75 

Debenture Officers. 75 

I. Attendance. 75 

II. The Inspector in Charge. 75 

III. Record Books to be kept. 76 

IV. Entries for Export. 76 

V. Preliminary Orders for Examination. 77 

VI. Shipping Merchandise. 78 

VII. Certificates of Shipment, &c. 79 









































INDEX. VH 

Page. 

The Inspectors for Measurement of Vessels. 79 

I. Vessels to be Measured.■... 79 

II. The Rules for Admeasurement. 80 

III. Vessels not to be Readmeasured. 82 

IV. American Vessels, how Distinguished. 82 

V. Duties of the Inspectors. 84 

VI. Examination of Passenger Vessels. 84 

VII. Special Reports. 85 

The Measurer of Marble. 86 

The Weighers. 86 

I. Assignments. 86 

II. Attendance and Duties. 87 

III. Weigher’s Implements. 87 

IV. Dock Books and Returns. 88 

V. Weight and Tare. 90 

VI. Extra Weight. 91 

VII. Amending Returns. 92 

VIII. Weighing and Returning by Numbers. 92 

IX. Coal and Salt. 94 

X. Railroad Iron. 95 

XI. Grains. 95 

XII. Special Orders and Exports. 95 

XIII. When Expenses are paid by Importer. 96 

XIV. Labor Rolls and Pay Tickets. 96 

XV. Penalties. 97 

XVI. Absence, &c. 98 

XVII. Schedule of Tares. 99 

The Gaugers.100 

I. Assignments.100 

II. Attendance and Duties. 100 

III. Gauging Instruments.101 

IV. Gauging. 101 

V. Dock Books and Returns .102 

VI. Amending Returns.103 

VII. Gauging and Returning by Numbers.104 

VIII. Special Orders and Exports. 104 

IX. Labor and Pay Rolls. 105 

X. Penalties.105 

XI. Absence, &c. 106 









































VIII 


INDEX. 


Page. 

The Marker of Distilled Spirits.107 

The Night Watch.109 

I. The Captain of the Watch. 109 

II. The Lieutenants. 109 

III. The Night Inspectors. 110 

IV. Details for Duty. Ill 

V. Duties of Night Inspectors.112 









REGULATIONS. 


THE COLLECTION DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. 

The District of New York includes within its limits all 
the following-named coasts, rivers, hays, and harbors, viz.: 
The bays and harbor of New York; the East River and 
Long Island Sound as far eastward as the Connecticut 
State line, and to the point called Oyster Pond Point on 
the north shore of Long Island; all of the south coast of 
Long Island as far eastward as Montauk Point; the Hud¬ 
son River as far northward as it is navigable; Staten 
Island and the adjacent waters (Act March 2, 1799, § 5, 
H. D., p. 61, Act May 7, 1822, $ 1, H. D., p. 204), and so 
much of the State of New Jersey as lies east of Elizabeth¬ 
town and Staten Island, comprising the counties of Hud¬ 
son and Bergen (Act February 21, 1863, H. D., p. 424), 
except all the waters and shores of Newark Bay, and the 
rivers and bays tributary thereto, the northern shore of 
the strait or passage known as Kill von Kull, and all that 
part of the western shore of the strait or passage known 
as Staten Island Sound or Arthur Kill which lies northerly 
of the northern boundary of the town of Rahway. (Act 
February 22, 1869, U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 15, p. 273.) 

THE SURVEYOR OF THE PORT. 

The Surveyor shall superintend and direct all Inspectors, 
Weighers, Measurers, and Guagers within his port. (Act 
March 2, 1799, $ 21, H. D., p. 73.) 



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THE DEPUTY SURVEYORS. 

The Surveyor may exercise and perform his several 
functions, powers, and duties by deputy. (Act March 2, 
1799, § 22, H. D., p. 75.) 

Tne Deputy Surveyors shall perform such duties as may 
be required of them, respectively, by the Surveyor, and 
all orders and directions made or given by them to In¬ 
spectors or other Officers under the superintendence of the 
Surveyor, must be obeyed and complied with by such 
Officers. 

THE SURVEYOR’S OFFICE. 

The Surveyor’s Office will be open for the transaction of 
business with Merchants and others from 9 o’clock a. m. 
to 3 o’clock p. m. daily, Sunday and legal holidays ex¬ 
cepted. All Deputies, Clerks, and other employes are re¬ 
quired to give their personal and timely attention to the 
duties of their respective situations; absence, without their 
written application and written leave, will be considered 
sufficient cause for dismissal. (Gen. Reg., 1857, p. 319.) 

No Inspector, Clerk, or other permanent employ6 of the 
Customs will bo allowed leave of absence for more than 
fourteen days in the year, except in cases of sickness or 
other casualty, unless by special authority of the Depart¬ 
ment. (Gen. Reg., 1857, p. 351.) 

No person not connected with the Custom-house or the 
Treasury Department is to be allowed access to, or per¬ 
mission to inspect, examine, take copies, or have copies 
furnished, or be advised of the information contained in 
any record, document, paper, letter, or account belonging 
to the Surveyor’s Office, except upon application to, and 
by permission of, the Surveyor; all persons attached to 


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the Custom-house are expressly forbidden from communi¬ 
cating, either orally or otherwise, any information con¬ 
tained in the records or files of the Custom-house to any 
person not attached to the Customs or Revenue, except 
such as may he necessary to aid Merchants and others in 
the regular daily routine of business passing through the 
Custom-house; any Clerk or other subordinate Officer em¬ 
ployed in the Custom-house, who may furnish information 
to private individuals, or shall accept or receive any fee, 
reward, or compensation other than that allowed by law, or 
shall accept any gratuity whatsoever, for any services he 
may perform for any person, which are not devolved upon 
him bylaw or regulations, will become subject to removal 
from office. (Gen. Reg., 1857, pp. 351, 352.) 

No official book, or document of any kind, will he taken 
from the files of the office, and delivered to any Officer or 
person, except by permission of the Surveyor. 

THE REVENUE STEAMERS. 

The two Revenue Steamers placed by the Department 
under the direction of the Surveyor (Act March 2, 1799, 
$ 99, H. D., p. 101), will be on duty alternately, one every 
other week, commencing on Saturday morning at eight 
o’clock. 

The Lieutenant-Commanding will be held responsible for 
the discipline of his vessel according to the laws and 
regulations governing Revenue Cutters, so far as the same 
are applicable to these Steamers. (Act March 2, 1799, §§ 
99, 102, H. D., pp. 131, 132, and Gen. Reg., 1857, Sec. VIII, 
p. 367.) 

The Assistant Boarding Officer when going on board the 
Revenue Steamer on duty, will report to the Lieutenant 
Commanding, and give him such information as will enable 


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liim to have tlie boarding or other service promptly and 
efficiently performed. 

In the absence of the Lieutenant Commanding, the Pilot 
will receive from and comply with the directions of the 
Assistant Boarding Officer. 

All Officers of the Customs while on hoard the Revenue 
Steamers, will comply with the orders of the Lieutenant 
Commanding in all matters pertaining to the discipline of 
the vessel. 

The Revenue Steamers will not, without the permission 
or order of the Surveyor, he used for any purpose other 
than that of hoarding duty and such other duties as legiti¬ 
mately appertain to the revenue service. 

THE TELEGRAPH OPERATORS. 

The Telegraph Operators shall he, and remain, on duty at 
their respective stations during the business hours of the 
day, and as long as their services are required. 

They shall receive and transmit all messages relative to 
the business of the Department; keep a fair record of the 
same, and have the transcripts therefrom promptly de¬ 
livered. 

The record of the Operator at the Barge Offices shall he 
subject to the inspection of the Boarding Officer and the 
Inspector assisting the Surveyor. 

The arrival of steamers must he promptly communicated 
to the Inspector assisting the Surveyor and to the Boarding 
Officer, and timely notice of such arrival shall he sent to 
the Appraiser, Entry Clerks, and to the Inspectresses desig¬ 
nated to attend the examination of baggage therefrom. 

The contract of the Department with the Telegraph com¬ 
pany provides, that notice of the arrival of vessels, or other 


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information in relation to vessels, shall not he communi¬ 
cated to any person other than the proper Revenue Officers. 

THE‘INSPECTOR ASSISTING THE SURVEYOR. 

It shall he the duty of the Inspector assisting the Sur¬ 
veyor, to assign, at his discretion, Inspectors to steamers 
and other vessels with cargo, arriving from foreign ports, 
to superintend the delivery of said cargo; to assign In¬ 
spectors temporarily to districts, or to take the place of 
District Inspectors sick or absent, which last-named assign¬ 
ments he shall, without delay, report to the Surveyor. 

To detail on the arrival of a steamer or other vessel from 
a foreign port, a sufficient number of Inspectors to examine 
the baggage of the Passengers, and to transmit a list of 
the Inspectors so detailed, on the arrival of each steamer, 
to the Deputy Surveyor supervising the examination of 
baggage. 

To have all messages sent to the Barge Office iwomptly 
transmitted to the Officer or person to whom they are ad¬ 
dressed, and to have the notice of the arrival of a steamer 
sent to the Appraiser, Entry Clerks, and Inspectresses in 
due time. 

To keep a record of all Inspectors assigned to discharging 
duty, which record shall show the name and location of 
the vessel to which the Inspector is assigned, or if not 
assigned to a vessel, whether he is at the Barge Office 
waiting for duty, or is sick, or absent, with or without 
leave, or is assigned to special duty. 

To keep a record of all Inspectors assigned to duty on 
districts, which record shall show the names and location 
of vessels which each District Inspector may he directed to 
discharge. 


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Whenever lie shall direct a District Inspector to superin¬ 
tend the delivery of the cargo of a vessel, such direction 
shall he in writing. 

To transmit to the Surveyor’s Office the returns and 
papers relating thereto, which have been delivered to him 
by the Inspectors, and to enter the names of such Inspectors 
on the record for duty. 

To report to the Surveyor, on Monday of each week, the 
station or duty of each Inspector, and to make prompt 
report to the Surveyor of any neglect, inattention to, or 
absence from, duty, or of any violation of regulations or 
orders of, or by, any Inspector of Customs. 

THE BOARDING OFFICER. 

It shall be the duty of the Inspector designated by the 
Surveyor as the Boarding Officer— 

To be at the Barge Office daily at 8 o’clock a. m., and to 
remain there until sunset. 

To see that the Assistant Boarding Officers perform their 
duty. 

To keep a record of all vessels which arrive from foreign 
ports, and at the close of each month to report to the Sur¬ 
veyor the number of vessels of each class that arrived 
during the month. 

To keep a book of the location of officers, entering therein 
the name of every Inspector assigned to discharge a vessel, 
the name of the vessel, and its location, as soon as ascer¬ 
tained, which book shall be sent each morning by 10 o’clock 
to the Surveyor’s office. 

To receive from the Assistant Boarding Officer on duty 
the manifests, and other papers, of vessels arriving from 
foreign ports; to see that the same are properly certified 
by the Assistant Boarding Officer; to transmit such mani 


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fests and other papers, properly certified, to the Collector; 
and daily, or oftener if necessary, transmit to the Collector 
and Surveyor a report of all vessels which shall have arrived 
since his last report, specifying the names and denomina¬ 
tions of the vessels, the master’s and consignee’s names, 
from whence arrived, whether laden or in ballast, and 
whether the masters thereof have, or have not, complied 
with the law, in having the required manifests of the cargo 
on hoard; all which particulars shall also be entered on 
the record aforesaid. 

To see that the Barge Office and its apjmrtenances are 
kept in good order ; to make requisitions on the Surveyor 
quarterly, or oftener if necessary, for such repairs or sup¬ 
plies as may be needed, and to certify to the correctness of 
all bills which he has been authorized to incur for such 
repairs or supplies before the same are presented to the 
Surveyor for his approval. 

THE ASSISTANT BOARDING OFFICERS. 

It shall be the duty of the three Inspectors, designated 
by the Surveyor as Assistant Boarding Officers— 

To be, in rotation, one every third day, at the Barge 
Office at 8 o’clock a. m., and to remain on duty until 8 
o’clock a. m. of the next day, and until relieved by another 
Assistant Boarding Officer. 

To board all vessels which arrive from foreign ports; to 
place thereon such Inspector or Inspectors as may have been 
assigned to the same (either temporarily or to superintend 
the delivery of cargo); to demand of the masters of such 
vessels the manifests, which, by law, they are required to 
produce to the Inspector (Act of March 2, 1799, §§ 23, 24, 
25, 26, H. D., pp. 77, 78, and Act July 18, 1866, §. 25, H. D., 
p. 482), and, if the vessel is an American vessel, to receive 


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from the master his crew list, and to have the crew mus¬ 
tered and compared with the same (Act February 28,1803, 
§ 1, H. D., p. 150); to identify with the Consul’s certificate 
any destitute American seaman who may have been brought 
home in any vessel (Act February 28, 1803, $ 4, H. D., p. 
151), and to make the proper certificates to the manifests, 
crew lists, and Consul’s certificates aforesaid. 

Vessels arriving must, if practicable, be boarded before 
they x>ass above Governor’s Island, and timely notice must 
be given to the Lieutenant-Commanding, or Pilot in charge 
of, the Revenue Steamer when the vessel will be required 
for duty. 

DISCHARGING OFFICERS. 

I.—ASSIGNMENT TO DUTY, ETC. 

Inspectors, after their appointment to office, on reporting 
to the Surveyor, will be by him assigned to duty. 

Before going on duty, every Inspector, and other Officer of 
the Customs under the superintendence and direction of the 
Surveyor, will procure of the Auditor of the Surveyor’s 
office an official badge, and each Inspector, whose duty 
requires their use, will be furnished with a set of Custom¬ 
house locks, for the safe keeping and return of which badge 
and locks, when required, the Inspector, or other Officer, 
will be held responsible. 

The necessary books and stationery required by the In¬ 
spectors and other Nfficers will be furnished to them upon 
personal or written application therefor to the Auditor of 
the Surveyor’s office. 

Surplus stationery, ticket books, &c., must be returned 
by the Discharging Officers to the Barge-Office for subse - 
quent use. 


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Inspectors, and all other Officers of the Customs, when 
on duty, must wear their official badge on the left lappel 
of the outside coat. 

Discharging Officers, when they are not assigned to a 
vessel, must be in attendance at the Barge-Office daily, 
from sunrise to sunset, until assigned to a vessel, or re¬ 
quired to perform other duty, and when the delivery of the 
cargo of the vessel to which he is assigned and the returns 
thereof are completed, or whenever any other duty to which 
he is assigned is performed, he will report again at the 
Barge-Office to the Inspector assisting the Surveyor, for 
duty. 

When an Inspector is called for duty, and is absent with¬ 
out leave, the Inspector assisting the Surveyor will report 
the fact to the Surveyor, and will not permit the Inspector 
to go on duty without the order of the Surveyor. 

II.—DUTIES AFTER BEING ASSIGNED TO A VESSEL. 

Immediately on the first coming of a vessel within the 
port, or as soon thereafter as practicable, an Inspector, or 
Inspectors, will be put on board to examine the cargo and 
contents of such vessel, and to superintend the delivery 
thereof, and to perform such other duties, according to law, 
as they shall be directed by the Surveyor to perform for 
the better securing the collection of the duties. The said 
Inspector or Inspectors shall make known to the person 
having the charge or command of such vessel, the duties 
he or they is, or are, required to perform ; and shall suffer 
no goods, wares, or merchandise, of any nature or kind 
whatsoever, to be landed or unladen, or otherwise taken 
or removed from such vessel without a permit; the In¬ 
spector or Inspectors shall attend to the delivery of the 
cargo at all times when the delivery of goods, wares, and 


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merchandise is lawful, particularly from the rising to the 
setting of the sun on each day, Sundays, and the 4th day 
of July in each year, excepted, for which purpose they shall 
constantly attend and remain on hoard the vessel, the 
delivery of which they are to superintend, or at any other 
station where their inspection is necessary; and they shall 
not quit such vessels or stations without leave of the Sur¬ 
veyor. 

Any Inspector who shall neglect, or in any manner act 
contrary to the duties hereby enjoined, shall, for the first 
offense, forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, and for 
the second offense shall he displaced, and be incapable of 
holding any station of trust or profit under the revenue 
laws of the United States for a term not exceeding seven 
years. 

No Inspector shall perform any duties or service on hoard 
any vessel, the superintendence of which is committed to 
him, for any person whatever, other than what is required 
by law, under the penalty of being disabled from acting 
any longer as an Inspector of the Customs. (Act March 2, 
1799, § 53, H. D., p. 97.) 

The Inspector must not leave his vessel, for any reason, 
nor go below for meals, without first having the hatches 
closed, and the vessel locked up or sealed, so as*to prevent 
the landing of cargo during his absence. 

When two Inspectors are assigned to a vessel both shall 
remain on duty as long as their services are required, and 
one must not leave the vessel in charge of his associate, 
unless he is temporarily called away by official business, 
and when meals are provided to the Inspectors on board 
only one at a time will go below for that purpose. 

The Discharging Officers of a steamship are required not 
to leave the vessel until relieved by the Night Officers, and 


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they must relieve the Night Officers promptly at sunrise. 
If warehouse merchandise remains on the dock the Inspec¬ 
tor must call the special attention of the Night Officers to 
such merchandise. If the Night Officers do not relieve the 
Discharging Officers at sunset, or within a reasonable time 
thereafter, report of the facts will he made by them in 
writing to the Surveyor. 

In case of the disability or necessary absence of an In¬ 
spector, the Surveyor, on due notice, will appoint another 
Inspector to take his place. (Act March 2, 1799, § 53, H. D., 
p. 98.) 

III.—SEARCHING AND SEALING A VESSEL. 

The Inspector, on being assigned to a vessel shall, as soon 
thereafter as possible, thoroughly search the vessel, and 
for that purpose he shall have free access to the cabin and 
every other part of the vessel; and if any box, trunk, chest, 
cask, or other package, shall be found in the cabin, steer¬ 
age, or forecastle of such vessel, or in any other place 
separate from the residue of the cargo, it shall Tbe the duty 
of the Inspector to take a particular account of every such 
box, trunk, chest, cask, or other package, and of the marks 
and numbers thereof, if any there be, and a description 
thereof, and to put a seal on every such package. (Act 
March 2, 1799, § 54, H. D., p. 99.) 

The account aforesaid, with a report in writing, of the 
Inspector, of the facts and circumstances thereof, must be 
transmitted to the Surveyor without delay. 

The inspector is required and enjoined to secure, after 
sunset in each evening, or previous to his quitting the ves¬ 
sel, the hatches and other communications with the hold 
of the vessel, or any other part or place he may judge 


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necessary, witli locks or seals, which locks or seals sliall 
not be opened, broken, or removed, until tbe following 
morning, or after sunrise, and in tbe presence of the In¬ 
spector by whom the same shall have been affixed (except 
by special permission of the proper officer). If the locks 
or seals shall be broken or removed during the night, or 
before sunrise, or without the presence of the Inspector 
(or without such special permission), or if any goods or 
packages shall be clandestinely landed, the master, or 
other person having command of the vessel, shall, for each 
and every of the offenses aforesaid, forfeit and pay the sum 
of five hundred dollars. (Act March 2,1799, § 54, p. 99.) 

The Inspector is required to report, in writing, to the Sur¬ 
veyor, without delay, any violation of the law last above 
referred to, stating particularly all the facts and circum¬ 
stances of the case. 

IV.—LETTER BAGS AND LETTERS. 

No ship or vessel arriving at any port within the United 
States where a post office is established, shall be permitted 
to report, make entry, or break bulk,until the master or com¬ 
mander shall have delivered to the Postmaster all letters 
directed to any person or persons within the United States 
or Territories thereof, which, under his care or within his 
power, shall be brought in such ship or vessel, except such 
as are directed to the owner or consignee of the ship or 
vessel. And if any Commander or Master of any such ves¬ 
sel shall break bulk before he shall have complied with 
the requirements of this Act, every such offender shall, on 
conviction thereof, forfeit for every such offense a sum not 
exceeding one hundred dollars. (Act March 3, 1825, § 17, 
H. D., p. 222.) 


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Inspectors are required to carefully search every vessel 
for letters which may he on hoard, or have been carried or 
transported contrary to law, and the Inspector is authorized 
to seize all letters, packages, and parcels containing letters, 
which shall have been sent or conveyed contrary to law, 
on hoard of any ship or vessel, and to convey such letters 
to the nearest post office. (Act August 31,1852, § 5, H. D. ? 
p. 352.) 

If seizures are made the Inspector will retain the letters 
and packages seized, and deliver the same into the custody 
of the Collector, and make a written report of the facts. 
(Revised Reg. part III, p. 6.) 

With respect to sailing vessels, an Officer of the Customs 
must take charge of each letter hag before it leaves the 
ship, and examine it in presence of the Master, or other 
Officer commanding the vessel. The letters and packages 
must he replaced in the hag, sealed up, and put into the 
custody of such Officer of the vessel, and (he by him) 
delivered at the post office. (RevisedReg., part III, p. 6.) 

Whenever a steamship from a foreign port comes to the 
proper wharf, an Inspector shall he specially detailed to 
supervise the landing therefrom of the mails brought in 
said vessel. The Inspector so detailed shall personally 
superintend the delivery from the vessel of all the mails 
on board, and shall take a correct account of every hag 
and package landed, and is also required to accompany the 
said mails from the wharf to the post office, and to super¬ 
intend the delivery of each hag or package thereof to the 
Postmaster. 

Whenever a steamship or other vessel is detained at 
Quarantine, or in the stream, and the mails brought in 
such steamship or vessel are allowed to he delivered there¬ 
from on hoard of a steam-tug, an Inspector will he specially 


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detailed to go witli the tug to the steamship. The said 
Inspector is required to personally superintend the delivery 
of the mails from the steamship on hoard the tug, and to 
take an account of every mail hag and package so deliv¬ 
ered from the steamship. He is also required to accom¬ 
pany the said mails -while on the tug, and until they are 
landed on the wharf, and from thence to the post office, 
and to superintend the delivery of each hag or package 
thereof to the Postmaster. 

The accounts aforesaid shall he certified hy the Inspec¬ 
tor, and will he delivered to the Surveyor. 

The mails will be examined at the Post Office hy such 
Officer as may he mutually agreed upon hy the Postmaster 
and Collector. 

All letters or packages suspected of containing articles 
liable to duty, whether directed to the Owner, Consignee, 
or other persons, must he deposited at the Custom-house 
in charge of an Officer of the Customs, and notice given 
to the persons to whom they are directed, to cause the 
same to he opened in the presence of such Officer of the 
Customs as the Collector may .designate for that service. 
(Revised Reg., Part III, p. 7.) 

V.—SEA STORES. 

In order to ascertain what articles ought to he exempt 
from duty as the sea stores of a vessel, the master is required 
to make a correct report thereof to the Collector, under 
oath—such report to he made on the manifest of the vessel. 
If, in the judgment of the Collector and Naval Officer, the 
quantity is excessive, the master will he compelled to pay 
the duties on the excess. If any other, or greater quan¬ 
tity of stores, are found on hoard than are reported, or if 
any stores are landed without a proper permit, the same 


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shall he forfeited, and may he seized, and the master shall 
forfeit and pay, in addition thereto, treble the amount or 
value of the articles omitted or landed. (Act March 2, 
1799, § 45, H. D., p. 91.) 

As soon as practicable after taking charge of a vessel 
the Inspector will require of the master a list of the articles 
reported by him as sea stores. The Inspector will care¬ 
fully examine and compare the articles claimed as sea 
stores with the said list, and if he shall find any articles 
that have been omitted therefrom, he shall seize the same. 
If there be any unbroken packages claimed as stores, he 
will seal them up, or otherwise secure them, and in such 
case, or in case there appears to be an excessive quantity 
of stores on board, he will report the facts, in writing, to 
the Surveyor. 

VI.—SAMPLES, SPECIE, AND VALUABLES. 

The samples of the cargo of a vessel, and samples of no 
mercantile value, brought as such in any steamship, will 
be sent by the Inspector as soon as practicable after taking 
charge of the vessel, to the Sample Office, without any 
special order to that effect. 

Specie and valuables, usually in charge of the Purser of 
a steamship, must be taken possession of by the Inspector 
as soon as possible after he first goes on board the vessel. 
The special place or room where such specie and valuables 
are deposited, and, if they are deposited in the Pursers’ 
safe or office, the safe, or the packages containing such 
specie or valuables, must be locked with Custom-house 
locks, or otherwise secured, until ready for delivery there¬ 
from. 

When the Inspector receives a delivery permit, or an 
order to send any valuable package to the Appraiser’s 


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stores, lie shall deliver or send the same as directed, 
without delay, and must go on hoard the vessel and per¬ 
sonally attend to the delivery thereof. 

VII.—passenger’s baggage. 

The 46th section of the general collection act of the 2d 
March, 1799, prescribes two modes of passing through the 
Custom-house the baggage of passengers arriving in the 
United States. It may be passed either by a formal entry, 
as therein prescribed: or, if the Collector and Naval Officer 
shall think proper so to do, they may direct the Surveyor, 
or an Inspector, to make an actual examination of baggage, 
and a return thereof ; and if any articles are found in said 
baggage which, in their opinion, ought not to be exempted 
from duty, due entry thereof must be made, and the duties 
thereon paid, or secured to be paid, according to law. To 
prevent delay and embarrassment to passengers, the last 
mode suggested is to be adopted, whenever practicable, in 
all cases of arrival of passengers by vessels other than 
steamers of regular lines, for which special provision is 
made. It is expressly enjoined on officers of the Cus¬ 
toms that they must be careful that, while no unneces¬ 
sary delay or needless embarrassment is occasioned, 
proper scrutiny must be made to detect and report 
for entry and payment of duties, or security therefor, in 
pursuance of law, all articles found among the baggage 
liable to duty. They are cautioned, however, that the 
prime object of their labors is to secure the duties to the 
United States, and that they are to avoid making seizure 
of baggage because of the presence of dutiable articles, 
unless the intention of fraudulent importation is evident. 
The ignorance of our laws and language naturally pre¬ 
vailing among emigrants renders it particularly proper 




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that they should have the benefit of every supposition in 
favor of innocence. (Revised Reg., 1869, Part III, Art. 130, 

p. 60.) 

The following is the form of the order for examination 
usually called a baggage permit: 

“ The Inspector on board the-, from-, will 

examine the baggage of all the passengers, and if nothing 
be found but personal baggage, permit the same to be 
landed, and send all other articles not permitted in due 
time, to the appraiser’s stores, No. 119 Greenwich Street. 

“-, Collector. 

“-, Naval Officer. 

“ Custom-house, New York,- , 187—.” 

Wearing apparel in actual use, and other personal 
effects (not merchandise), professional books, implements, 
instruments and tools of trade, occupation or employment 
of persons arriving in the United States, shall be exempt 
from duty. (Act March 2, 1861, § 23, H. I)., p. 532.) 

The term “ wearing apparel ” embraces articles either 
used, or ready for use, such as it would be supposed the 
station in life of the party in possession would entitle or 
require him or her to make actual use of. “ Other personal 
effects not merchandise,” are understood to be such articles 
as persons of either sex have occasion to make daily use of, 
such as combs, brushes, and other articles of the toilet. 
“ Professional books, implements and tools of trade, occupa¬ 
tion or employment,” are understood to embrace such books 
or instruments as would naturally belong to a surgeon, phy¬ 
sician, engineer, or scientific person returning to this 
country, or to immigrants from abroad coming to the Uni¬ 
ted States to settle. (Gen. Reg., 1857, p. 596.) 

Books (architectural) bought abroad by a person for 
use in his profession are exempt from duty, as professional 
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books of persons arriving in the United States. [Synopsis 
of Decisions, 1868 (163), p 50.] 

Duty must be demanded on all watches but one brought 
into the United States by a single passenger. Seizure 
should be made only upon denial of the passenger that he 
has any other, or upon a false statement of the number in 
his possession. If all the watches are old, the passenger 
may choose the one to be treated as personal effects. If 
some are old and some new, the new are to be included 
among those treated as subject to duty. [Synopsis of 
Decisions, 1868 (170), p. 52.] 

Dutiable articles making part of a persons ordinary lug¬ 
gage are not liable to forfeiture, unless there has been a 
refusal to open, or to afford the means of opening, the 
package or envelope in which they are inclosed, or a con¬ 
cealment equivalent to such refusal, or an omission of the 
articles from a declaration of the contents of the pack¬ 
age. [Synopsis of Decisions, 1868 (244), p. 68.] 

Jewelry, when worn, and of such a description and 
quantity as befits the station of the possessor, may be 
admitted free of duty. (Gen. Reg., 1857, Art. 940, p. 600.) 

The examination of the baggage of cabin passengers 
arriving by steamer will be made under the supervision 
of the Deputy Surveyor and the Inspectors, specially 
assigned to that duty. No Inspector will be allowed to 
examine baggage unless he has been detailed for that 
purpose by the Inspector assisting the Surveyor. 

On the arrival of any steamer of a regular line from a 
foreign port, the Collector shall detail an experienced 
entry clerk, who, with a similar clerk to be designated by 
the Naval Officer, and an Assistant Appraiser or Examiner 
to be detailed by the Appraiser, shall, with the Inspector, 
examine all the passengers’ baggage, appraise the dutiable 


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value of the same, and assess the duty if any. Before 
such examination is made, every passenger will he required 
to make his declaration of baggage in the prescribed form. 
After the examination and collection of duty, if any, the 
delivery of baggage shall be made to the respective owners 
by the Inspector of the vessel, under the general baggage 
permit; and no baggage, with or without special permit, 
except when authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
shall be delivered without an examination by all these 
officers. Should any passenger’s baggage contain dutiable 
articles to the value of over $500, it will be sent to the 
Appraiser’s stores for regular entry and appraisement as 
provided by law. (Revised Reg., 1869, Art. 131, p. 61.) 

In the absence of the Entry clerks or Appraiser, dutiable 
articles taken from passenger’s baggage will be sent by the 
Inspector, as soon as possible, to the Appraiser’s stores, and 
the passenger will be furnished by the Inspector with the 
usual “ baggage certificate.” 

As security to the Inspector, he is required to make out 
two lists of all articles embraced in each package sent to 
the Appraiser’s stores; one list to be retained by him, the 
other list to be put inside of the package. The package 
must be secured and sealed, and the name of the vessel, 
passenger, and date of examination must be indorsed on 
the outside of the package. 

Upon the arrival of any vessel bringing steerage passen¬ 
gers, the Inspectors specially assigned to that duty, and 
none other, will examine the baggage and personal effects 
of the passengers. Dutiable articles found therein will be 
sent to the Appraiser’s stores in the manner hereinbefore 
j>rovided. 

A liberal construction should be given in favor of emi¬ 
grants to the provision of law in relation to the articles 


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enumerated in sec. 23, Act. March. 2, 1861, when actually 
owned and used in their particular calling at the time of 
their quitting a foreign country, and which they bring 
with them to this country, with the intention of continu¬ 
ing to use them here, and that such articles under such 
circumstances should be admitted duty free. In the exe¬ 
cution of this ruling much is entrusted to the discretion 
of the Officers of the Customs, and they are cautioned 
alike against too great indifference, and too unreasonable 
exercise of authority. If an emigrant presents himself 
with articles which he alleges were actually used by him 
in his particular calling, and produces reasonable evidence 
of the truth of his statements, the Collector is authorized 
to admit the same to entry free of duty. It may be proper 
to add that the provision in the 97th subdivision of the 
act above quoted, viz.: “ That this exemption shall not 

be construed to include machinery or other articles im¬ 
ported for use in any manufacturing establishment, or for 
sale,” must be carefully observed. (Department Circular 
No. 3, May 5, 1869.) 

Baggage agents and all other persons (without per¬ 
mission of the Surveyor) will be excluded from the vessel, 
and from so much of the dock as is used for examiniinr 

o 

baggage, until the examination of all the baggage is com¬ 
pleted. 

Whenever any passenger’s baggage has been examined 
and found correct, each package thereof must be distinctly 
marked with the word “ passed,” and with the initials of 
the name, and the number of the official badge, of the 
examining Inspector. 

The Inspector stationed at the gate on the arrival of a 
steamer, must not allow any trunk or package to be removed 


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from the dock, unless it is properly passed and checked 
by the examining Inspector. 

All baggage remaining on the vessel or dock, not claimed 
within a reasonable time by any passenger, must be sent 
by the Inspector to the public store designated in the 
“ General Order.” 

VIII.—DELIVERY OF CARGO. 

No goods, wares, or merchandise brought in any ship or 
vessel from any foreign port or place shall be unladen or 
delivered from such ship or vessel within the United 
States but in open day, that is to say, between the rising 
and setting of the sun, except by special license from the 
Collector of the Port and the Naval Officer for that pur¬ 
pose, nor at any time without a permit from the Collector 
and Naval Officer for such unlading and delivery: and if 
any goods, wares, or merchandise shall be unladen or 
delivered from any such ship or vessel contrary to the 
directions aforesaid, or any of them, the master or person 
having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, and 
every other person who shall knowingly be concerned, or 
in aiding therein, or in removing, storing, or otherwise 
securing the said goods, wares, or merchandise, shall for¬ 
feit and pay, each and severally, the sum of four hundred 
dollars for each offense, and shall be disabled from holding 
any office of trust or profit under the United States for a 
term not exceeding seven years. (Act March 2d, 1799, 
§ 50, H. D., p. 96.) 

When “special license” is granted to land cargo after 
sunset, a permit is issued in the following form: 

“ To the Inspectors of the Fort of New York: 

“ Sir : You will allow to be landed from on board the 
-after sunset, the entire cargo (if it can be done 



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with safety to the revenue), provided the cargo he duly 
permitted or ordered. 

“-, Collector'. 


11 -, Naval Officer. 

“ Collector’s Office, New York, -, 187— 

The permit must, in all cases before it is acted upon, be 
indorsed as follows: 

u To the Inspector .” Signed: “-, Surveyor.” 


When cargo is landed after sunset by special permit, the 
Discharging Inspector must remain at the vessel and 
superintend the delivery and take an account of the cargo 
as it is landed. 

Inspectors will receive compensation for services ren¬ 
dered under a night permit at the rate of $10 per night 
for each night employed. (Department letter to Collector, 
dated May 13, 1869.) Inspectors w r ill make out a bill in 
the prescribed form, in duplicate, for such services, one 
bill to be delivered to the Consignees of the vessel, the 
other to be left with the Auditor of the Surveyor’s Office. 
When the bill is paid by the Consignees to the Auditor, the 
amount will be x>aid over to the Inspectors entitled thereto. 

Whenever the Night Inspector assigned to the vessel 
asks to see the x>ermit or authority of the Inspector for 
landing cargo after sunset, the permit must be shown to 
the Night Inspector. 


IX.—DUTY-PAID PERMITS. 


All permits shall specify, as particularly as may be, the 
goods to be delivered, namely, the number and description 
of the packages, whether trunk, bale, chest, box, case, 
pipe, hogshead, barrel, keg, or other packages whatever, 
with the mark and number of each x>ackage, and, as far 
as circumstances will admit, the contents thereof, together 







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witli the names of the vessel and master in which, and the 
place from whence, they were imported; and no goods, 
wares, or merchandise shall be delivered by any Inspector 
or other Officer of the Customs that shall not fully agree 
with the description thereof in such permit. (Act March 
2d, 1799, § 49, H. D., p. 95.) 

The form of the permit will be as follows: 

“Port of New York. 

“ To the Inspector of the Port: 

“We certify, that-has paid, or secured to be 

paid, the duties on merchandise contained in the following 
packages, in conformity to the entry thereof of this date; 

which merchandise was imported in the -, -, 

master, from -. Permission is accordingly hereby 

given to land the same, viz: 


Marks. 

Nos. 

Description of Merchandise. 

Send to App’s St’re 






“ Custom-house,-, 187—. 

“- 3 Collector. 

“-, Naval Officer.” 


Interlineations and erasures on a permit are to be dis¬ 
regarded, unless such interlineations and erasures are 
checked with the initials of the Collector and Naval 
Officer. An indorsement on a permit to 11 land and return 
as found,” or any other indorsement which changes the 






















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original permit or order, must be checked with the initials 
or be signed by the Collector and Naval Officer. 

Articles that are to be either weighed, gauged, or 
measured must be noted in the permit. (Act March 2d, 
1799—form in § 49, H. D., p. 95.) A line drawn under the 
description of the packages or merchandise named in the 
permit (called underscoring) indicates that the merchan¬ 
dise is to be weighed, gauged, or measured. 

In order to save to Importers the expense, trouble, and 
delay to which they are subjected when the delivery of 
their merchandise cannot be made for the reason that the 
mark, number, or description thereof does not agree with 
the permit, the Inspector is directed, if he is satisfied of 
the identity of the merchandise, to state in writing, upon 
the back of the permit, the marks and numbers or descrip¬ 
tion of the packages as they come up, and either to send 
or bring the permit to the Custom-house for correction or 
for authority to land or send the merchandise as found ,* 
and he will, if practicable, retain the merchandise in his 
possession until the permit or order is returned to him. 

After a duty-paid permit or warehouse order is delivered 
to the Inspector of the vessel, the Importers may withdraw 
it, provided it has not been acted upon, either in whole or 
in part. 

When merchandise is landed on the wharf on a duty- 
paid permit, and has been weighed, gauged, and marked, 
if required, the duty of the Inspector in relation thereto is 
performed, and he is not required to send the merchandise 
to the Importer’s store. 

Discharging Officers are required not to allow duty-paid 
merchandise, which is required to be weighed or gauged 
before delivery, to be landed upon the dock in quantities 
greater than can with reasonable diligence on the part of 


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tlie Weiglier or Gauger he weighed or gauged before sun¬ 
set. 

Obedience to this direction will be enforced by closing 
the vessel when necessary to do so for this purpose. 

This direction does not relate to vessels discharging 
sugar and other bulky articles upon the wharves in Brook¬ 
lyn, nor to duty-paid goods discharged upon the inclosed 
wharf of any Steamship Company. 

When a permit is delivered to the Inspector, he should 
refer to his discharging book, and if he finds that all the 
packages have been already sent to public store under the 
general order, he will state the fact in writing on the back 
of the permit and return it to the Importer. If he finds 
that some of the packages have been sent to the public 
store under the general order, he will give the Importer a 
certificate for such packages. 

X.—WINES AND DISTILLED SPIRITS. 

Every permit granted by the Collector and Naval Officer 
for the unlading of spirits or wines shall, previous to 
such landing, be produced to the Surveyor, who shall 
indorse thereupon the word “ Inspected/’ the time when, 
and his own name, after which he shall return the said 
permit to the person by whom it shall have been produced, 
and then, and not otherwise, it shall be lawful to land the 
spirits or wines therein specified; and if the said spirits 
or wines shall be landed without such indorsement upon 
the permit granted for that purpose, the master, or other 
person having the charge or command of the ship or vessel 
from which the same shall have been so landed shall, for 
every such offense, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred 
dollars, and the spirits or wines so landed shall be forfeited. 
(Act March 2d, 1799, $ 37, H. D., p. 89.) 


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The indorsement required as above upon permits for 
the delivery of spirits and wines is made with a stamp, as 
follows: 

“ Inspected. (Date.) -, Surveyor.” 

Warehouse and public store orders do not require the 
indorsement or stamp last mentioned. 

Packages containing spirits or wines when landed must, 
before they are delivered or sent from the wharf, be gauged 
and also marked, and if removed before this is done, may 
be seized. (Act March 2d, 1799, §§ 39, 51. H. D., 
pp. 89, 96.) 

XI.—FREE PERMITS. 

Merchandise entered free of duty will be delivered on 
what is called a “free permit,” of which the following is 
the form: 

“Free. —(Mr.-. -, D. Collector.) 

“No. 2.] Port of New York. 

“ To the Inspector of the Port: 

“We certify, that-has imported in the-, 

-, master, from -. Permission is hereby given 

to deliver the same, viz.: 


“-, Collector. 

“-, Naval Officer. 

“ Custom-house,-, 187—.” 

If the free permit has upon it the direction “ Officer 
examine,” the Inspector will examine each and all of the 
packages mentioned therein: if, upon such examination, 
he finds the contents of the packages, or any of them, to 
be different from or of greater value than is described oi 
stated in the permit, he will retain possession of the pack- 













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age or packages, and state tlie facts in writing on the hack 
of the permit, or make a separate special report of the 
facts, and send the permit and report forthwith to the 
Surveyor, who will thereupon send directions to the 
Inspector what to do with the merchandise. 

XII.—WAREHOUSE ORDERS. 

After due entry has been made of merchandise intended 
to be warehoused (Act March 28, 1854, H. D., p. 352), the 
Collector and Naval Officer will issue an order to the 
Inspector to send the goods to the warehouse named 
therein, with the exception of such as may be designated 
for examination, which will be sent to the Appraisers’ 
Stores. Such order must also indicate what goods are to 
be weighed or gauged aud marked, and the weighing or 
gauging and marking is, in all cases, to be done before the 
goods are sent to the warehouse. The order will be in 
the following form: 

“Custom-house, Collector’s Office, -, 187—• 

11 To the Inspector of the Port: 

“ You are directed to send to the bonded warehouse, 
No. —,-Street— 




“Imported on the-of-by-, in the 

-master, from-. 

u. 
a 


-, Naval Officer.” 


-, Collector. 
























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On this order the Collector will designate the packages 
which the Inspector will send to the Appraiser’s Stores* 
(Gen. Reg. 1857, pp. 221, 222.) 

The designation of the warehouse in the order must he 
checked with the initials of the proper clerk in the Col¬ 
lector’s Office. 

The same rule in relation to alterations, erasures, or 
changes, applies to warehouse orders as to duty-paid per¬ 
mits. 

When merchandise is landed under warehouse order on 
a wharf adjacent to, or connected with, a warehouse, and 
where the employment of carts is not necessary, the pro¬ 
prietors of the warehouse will he allowed to employ labor¬ 
ers and trucks to transfer the merchandise into the ware¬ 
house. If the proprietors neglect to do this the Inspector 
will send in the goods in the ordinary way. 

All packages described in the warehouse order, whether 
empty or not, must he sent to the warehouse, and a receipt 
taken therefor. The Inspector must state in the margin 
of his return how many of the packages were empty. 

Certain merchandise, such as sugar, molasses, and other 
bulky articles, when the special permission of the Collec¬ 
tor is indorsed on the warehouse order, may he allowed to 
remain on the wharf for two days after landing. During 
this periodthe coopering of the packages, if required, must 
he done. At the expiration of the time allowed the mer¬ 
chandise must he sent into the warehouse. 

While the merchandise remains on the wharf by per¬ 
mission of the Collector it is considered to he in the 
custody of the Inspector. Therefore, if a duty-paid permit 
or other order for the merchandise is presented to the In¬ 
spector, he will deliver the same as from the vessel. 

No more merchandise must he landed upon the wharf 



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under warehouse order, or general order, than can he sent 
into the designated warehouse, or general order store, before 
sunset of the day when the same is landed, nor unless the 
said merchandise can be weighed or gauged and marked, 
before sending. Inspectors will enforce this order by stop¬ 
ping the discharge of the cargo, so as to give ample time 
for this purpose. 

When warehouse goods are necessarily kept on the dock 
over night the Inspector will send notice to the Barge Office 
to have Night Inspectors sent to take charge of the mer¬ 
chandise. 

When merchandise is ordered and sent by the Inspector 
to a designated warehouse, and the proprietor thereof for 
any reason declines to receive the merchandise, or in case 
of bulky merchandise, which, by order of the Collector, 
has been permitted to remain on the wharf two days, the 
proprietor of the designated warehouse does not immedi¬ 
ately thereafter take the merchandise into warehouse, the 
Inspector will report the facts in writing to the Surveyor. 

XIII.—GENERAL ORDERS. 

Unless all the cargo of a vessel is permitted or ordered 
to warehouse, the delivery of the cargo will not be com¬ 
menced until the Inspector of the vessel receives a general 
order, the form of which is as follows: 

“GENERAL ORDER. 

“Custom-house, Port of New York, 

Collector’s Office, -, 187—. 

“ The inspector on board the-,-, master, 

from-, will send to the public store, No.—, all pack¬ 

ages, when landed, and for which no permit or order shall 
have been received by him contrary to this direction, except 
perishable articles, gunpowder, fire-crackers, and explosive 






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substances not permitted for consumption, which you will 
retain on board, and send notice of to this office. The 
usual weighing, gauging and measuring to be done before 
sending goods under this order. 

“-, Collector .” 

The attention of Inspectors is called to the exception in 
the general order of “ perishable articles, gunpowder, &c.” 
If such merchandise is on board, the Inspector must report 
the fact to the Collector, and, before it is landed, obtain a 
special order for the landing and deposit of the merchan¬ 
dise excepted. 

If the designated general order store refuses to receive 
merchaudise ordered thereto, the Inspector will indorse 
the fact, with the reasons, if known to him, on the back 
of the general order, and either send or bring it to the 
Custom-house, to have the merchandise ordered to some 
other store or place. 

XIV.—WEIGHING, GAUGING, AND MARKING. 

No goods, wares, or merchandise brought in any ship or 
vessel, from any foreign port or place, requiring to be 
weighed or gauged in order to ascertain the duties thereon, 
shall, without the consent of the proper officer, be removed 
from any wharf or place upon which the same may be 
landed or put, before the same shall have been so weighed 
or gauged; and if spirits, before the proof or quality thereof 
is ascertained and marked thereon, by or under the direction 
of the proper officer for that purpose; and if any such 
goods, wares, or merchandise shall be removed from such 
wharf or place, unless with the consent of the proper officer, 
had and obtained before the same shall have been so 
weighed or gauged; and, if spirits, before the proof, or 
quality, and quantity, shall have been so ascertained and 



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marked, the same shall he forfeited, and may he seized by 
any Officer of the Customs. (Act March 2, 1799, § 51, H. 
D., p. 96.) 

Discharging Officers will require the stevedore having 
charge of the landing of merchandise to place the mer¬ 
chandise upon the dock, and to assort the same, keeping 
each lot or mark together, and separate from other goods, 
so as to make it convenient for the Weigher to perform his 
duty; and will also require the Stevedore to place upon 
the dock all casks, &c., required to be gauged, at suitable 
distances from each other, say two feet, with bungs up, 
and no city gauger, cooper, or other person, can be per¬ 
mitted to interfere, in any way, with the merchandise, until 
the United States Gauger or Weigher has performed his 
duty. (Gen. Reg. 1857, p. 350.) 

The Inspector will enforce compliance with the above 
regulations by stopping the landing of merchandise from 
the vessel until his orders are complied with by the Steve¬ 
dore in regard to goods already landed. 

XV.—CARTAGE AND LIGHTERAGE. 

All goods in bond, whether passing from the vessel or 
other conveyance in which imported to the warehouse, or 
from one vessel or conveyance to another vessel or convey¬ 
ance, all unclaimed (general order) goods, and all goods 
ordered to the appraiser’s stores for examination, will be 
carted, drayed, or lightered by responsible cartmen, dray¬ 
men, or lightermen, who, while performing this duty, will 
be known as Custom-house cartmen, draymen, or lighter¬ 
men, and be under the control and direction of the Inspec¬ 
tor of the vessel, it being intended that bonded goods, or 
goods ordered for examination, shall, at all times, be in the 


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custody of the government or its authorized agents. Such 
persons shall, also, he subject, while so employed, to the 
orders of the Collector, and will he held to a strict com¬ 
pliance with all the warehouse rules and regulations. 
(Gen. Keg. 1857, p. 286.) 

On and after February 1st, 1870, all merchandise men¬ 
tioned in the preceding paragraph will he conveyed from 
vessel to the designated store or warehouse hy the carts, 
or other vehicles, employed hy the District Cartmen 
specially appointed and licensed hy the Collector for that 
purpose, except that the Collector may, hy special license, 
allow the Importer or Importers of merchandise entered 
for warehouse to convey the merchandise imported hy him 
or them from vessel to warehouse hy carts or other ve¬ 
hicles owned or employed hy him or them for that purpose. 

Every cart or vehicle employed for the purpose before- 
named hy the District Cartmen must have painted upon 
it, in some permanent and conspicuous place, “Custom¬ 
house License,-District, No. -,” in letters and 

figures of not less than two inches in length, and imme¬ 
diately under the same the number of the city license; such 
designation to he painted in white letters and figures, in 
oval lines, upon a black ground, of oval form, of not less 
size than 24 hy 16 inches. 

On every cart, or other vehicle of Importers specially 
licensed to ride warehoused goods, the designation above 
mentioned, and, in addition thereto, the name of the per¬ 
son or firm to whom the cart or vehicle belongs or is em¬ 
ployed, must he added, and the said designation must he 
painted in black letters and figures, in straight lines, upon 
a white background, in square form, and in size not less 
than 24 hy 16 inches. 

Inspectors, or other Officers of the Customs, whenever 



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they shall, for the protection of the Revenue, deem it 
necessary so to do, may demand of any person claiming to 
he a Custom-house cartman or lighterman, an inspection 
of his license granted by the Collector. If the same is not 
produced, or, if the carts or other vehicles are not marked 
as above required, or, in case the cartman or lighterman 
refuses or neglects to obey any proper order of the Inspector, 
or any order, rule, or regulation of the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment, or of the Collector or Surveyor, relative to the cartage 
or lighterage of merchandise, the cartman or lighterman 
guilty of any such refusal or neglect, will not be employed 
by the Inspectors, and the facts of the case will be, by 
the inspector, at once reported in writing to the Sur¬ 
veyor. 

All persons licensed by the Collector to convey mer¬ 
chandise, as aforesaid, will be required to perform their 
work promptly, and not to delay Inspectors or other Offi¬ 
cers of the Customs. 

Merchandise ordered to store or warehouse, will not be 
allowed to remain outside of the store or warehouse over 
night, unless special permits are granted by the proper 
Officers. 

When Importers have carts or other vehicles specially 
licensed by the Collector to convey merchandise of their 
own importation to warehouse, the. carts or other vehicles 
of the Importer must be at the vessel and in readiness to 
ride the merchandise when the Inspector is ready to send 
it. Otherwise, the Inspector (after waiting a reasonable 
time) will send the goods to warehouse by the District 
Custom-house carts. 

Should the Storekeeper at any warehouse refuse to 
receive merchandise sent thereto, the Inspector will at 
3 


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once report tlie facts of the case, in writing, to the Sur¬ 
veyor. 

When merchandise is sent from the ship or vessel in 
which the same may have been imported, to a warehouse 
under a warehouse permit (or to the Appraiser’s stores for 
examination, or to the Public Store under general order), 
each cart, dray, or lighter load must be accompanied by a 
receipt ( i . e., ticket or lighter bill), specifying the marks, 
numbers, and description of packages. This receipt (ticket) 
will be signed (with ink) by the officer in charge of the 
warehouse or store, on due receipt of the goods, and will 
be returned by the cartman, drayman, or lighterman on 
board the vessel. These cart, dray, or lighter receipts are 
to be numbered progressively. Should the cartman, dray¬ 
man, or lighterman refuse or neglect to return the receipts 
to the Inspector, that officer will report the fact to the 
Surveyor, and the employment of such drayman, cartman, 
or lighterman will not, afterwards, be permitted. (Gen. 
Reg. 1857, p. 222.) 

All licensed cartmen are required to make out for each 
cart, or other load of merchandise, taken by them from a. 
vessel, quadruple receipts in the form prescribed by the 
Collector, and describing the merchandise so taken ; each 
of which receipts must be signed by the cartman. On 
presentation of the four receipts to the Discharging In¬ 
spector, he will, if the same be correct, and agrees with 
the ticket made out by him, as prescribed in the preceding 
paragraph, check the receipts with the initials of his name ; 
three of the receipts will be handed back to the cartman 
with the Inspector’s ticket; the fourth receipt will be 
retained by the Inspector as a voucher for the delivery of 
the merchandise to the cartman. 

The Inspector is required to see that a full load is taken 




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on each cart or other vehicle, whenever it is practicable to 
do so. Only one ticket for each load will he furnished by 
the Inspector to the cartman. When a short load is neces¬ 
sarily sent, the Inspector will state the reason why on the 
back of the ticket for the information of the Storekeeper. 

Inspectors are directed not to make bargains of any 
kind with cartmen or lightermen. The prices for cartage 
or lighterage will be regulated by the Collector, and be 
paid at the warehouse or store where the merchandise is 
delivered. 

Should any receipt (ticket or lighter bill) be returned 
to the Inspector from the warehouse, altered or changed 
in quantity, the Inspector must at once call at the ware¬ 
house and satisfy himself by actual count of the packages, 
or otherwise, that the alteration was properly made by 
the Storekeeper. . 

XVI.—EXPORTS DIRECT FROM VESSEL AND VESSEL WARE¬ 
HOUSE. 

Whenever merchandise imported in a vessel is entered 
for immediate export, or for transportation in bond from 
the vessel to another port in the United States, permits 
signed by the Collector and Naval Officer, and addressed to 
the Inspector, will be issued. These permits vary in lan¬ 
guage, and the Inspector must carefully read the permits 
to enable him to deliver the merchandise properly. 

When the permit directs the Inspector to “ deliver to 
the Surveyor,” the merchandise will be delivered to an 
Inspector sent from the Debenture Room for that purpose, 
and not otherwise, except as follows, viz.: If the permit 
has upon its thee the direction (stamp) “ Inspector de¬ 
liver to District Inspector,” the merchandise will be 


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delivered to the Inspector of the district upon which the 
vessel is discharging. If the permit is stamped “ Inspec¬ 
tor SEND BY LIGHTER TO SHIPPING OFFICER AT -,” tile 

Inspector will have the merchandise delivered on hoard 
a Custom-house lighter, and make out two lighter hills, one 
of which must he receipted hy the master of the lighter and 
be retained hy the Inspector; the other will he retained 
hy the master of the lighter until the merchandise is along¬ 
side the export vessel, when the master must deliver the 
lighter hill to the proper District Officer, who will super¬ 
intend the transfer of the merchandise from the lighter to 
the export vessel, provided the export papers are in his 
hands, and not otherwise. 

When the permit directs the Inspector to send the mer¬ 
chandise described therein to a bonded warehouse, or 
elsewhere, for export or transportatipn, he will send the 
merchandise as directed, with the usual receipt (ticket), 
as in the case of ordinary warehoused merchandise. 

When the Inspector receives a “vessel warehouse” 
order, he becomes, for the time, the storekeeper in charge 
of the merchandise, and the permit to deliver the mer¬ 
chandise (either duty paid, or for export or transportation) 
is addressed “to the storekeeper,” and by him indorsed 
(hy stamp) “Afloat. Inspector as storekeeper, De¬ 
liver,” and the Inspector will deliver the goods as directed, 
and in conformity with the directions (hy stamp) of the 
Surveyor thereon. 

When a vessel warehouse order is delivered to the 
Inspector, he will retain the merchandise on hoard, unless 
the master or consignees direct the same to he landed, in 
which case, the Inspector will allow the merchandise to 
he landed on the dock, provided a general order has been 
issued and been delivered to him. And if after the mer- 



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chandise has been landed and has been weighed or gauged, 
if required, and no further order for the delivery or sending 
of the merchandise has been received by the Inspector, he 
will send the merchandise to public store under the general 
order. 

Inspectors will endeavor to save Importers the expense 
to which they are subjected if their merchandise entered 
for export or transportation is sent under general order; 
and they will therefore retain the merchandise on the 
wharf as long as they can,-consistently with the regula¬ 
tions relative to clearing the dock of bonded goods to 
to enable the Importer to procure the delivery order. 

XVII.—DELIVERY OF COAL AND SALT. 

The Inspector assigned to superintend the delivery of 
the cargo of a vessel having on board coal, salt, or other 
merchandise in bulk, to be landed in Custom-house tubs, 
is directed not to allow the same to be landed until he 
receives a proper permit (underscored for weighing), and 
also, an order from the Surveyor, in the following form: 

“Custom-house, Nevt York, 

“Surveyor’s Office, -, 187—. 

“ To the Inspector of Customs on board Ship -: 

“ Sir : You will deliver the-(if duly permitted), 

and keep a correct account thereof, and make return of 
the number of tubs delivered to the Weigher of your dis¬ 
trict, who will take the necessary weights, &e. 

“ -, Surveyor 

The tubs required for the delivery of coal, salt, or other 
merchandise in bulk, will be sent to the vessel on notice 
being given to the Surveyor by the master or consignees 
of the vessel. 

A correct account must be kept by the Inspector of every 






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sack of salt, or tub-full of coal, salt, or other merchandise 
landed; he will see that the tubs are uniformly and 
eventy filled, and will give to the Weigher, when a request 
is made therefor, an account of the number of sacks or tubs- 
full landed. When the merchandise is all landed, the In¬ 
spector will have the tubs put upon the doek.and safely 
kept until the Custom-house cartman comes for them. 

XVIII.—TAKING IN CARGO OR BALLAST. 

The Inspector in charge of a vessel will not allow ballast, 
cargo or coal, to be taken on board the vessel until all the 
inward cargo is discharged therefrom, unless an order to 
take in ballast, cargo or coal, is delivered to him. 

The following is the form of such order: 

“ To the Surveyor of the Port of New York: 

“ Sir : You will allow to be taken on board the- 

ballast, cargo and coal, if it can be done with safety to the 
revenue. 

“ -, Collector . 

Collector’s Office, New York, -, 187—. 

The order must not be acted upon unless it is indorsed 
as follows: 

“ To the Inspector. (Signed:)- Surveyor.” 

XIX.—OVERTIME. 

When goods, wares, or merchandise remain on board a 
vessel after the legal time for discharging the same has 
exjured, the Collector may take possession of all such 
goods, wares, and merchandise. (Act March 2, 1799, $ 56, 
H. D., p. 100.) 

The time allowed in which to discharge the cargo of a 
vessel, is as follows: 

Vessels of less than three hundred tons, eight days. 







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Vessels of three hundred tons and less than eight hun¬ 
dred tons, twelve days. 

Vessels of eight hundred tons and upwards, fifteen days. 
(Act March 2, 1861, H. D., p. 405.) 

The working days of a vessel are to he computed by ex¬ 
cluding the days of arrival and entry, Sundays and legal 
holidays, and rainy days when cargo is not discharged. 

The Inspector will give a separate notice (according to 
the printed form prescribed therefor) to the Collector, Sur¬ 
veyor, and Consignees of the vessel, stating when the time 
for discharging will expire or has expired. 

Until a further order is received, the Inspector is directed 
not to allow cargo to be landed from the vessel. 

The Collector is authorized to allow such longer time 
for discharging the cargo as in his judgment he may 
think necesssary, and if the time therefor be extended 
the compensation of the Inspector or Inspectors who may 
be actually employed, for every day’s attendance exceeding 
the time limited by law for discharging, shall be paid by 
the master, owner, or (consignees) of the vessel. (Act 
March 2, 1799, $ 56, H. D., p. 101.) 

When the time for discharging the cargo of a vessel is 
extended by the Collector, the Surveyor will issue an 
order to the Inspector on board, in the following form: 

“ Custom-house, New York, 

“ Surveyor’s Office ,-, 187—. 

“ To the Inspector: 

“- days extension is granted to the-, from 

-for discharging of the cargo. You will, as soon as the 

cargo is discharged, make out a bill for your per diem 
allowance for the overtime and leave it with the consignees 
of the aforenamed vessel. A duplicate bill to be sent to 
this office for collection. 


•, Surveyor .” 








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If the extended time (working days) expires before the 
cargo is all discharged, new notices must he given by the 
Inspector, and a further extension of time procured from 
the Collector, of which the Surveyor will give the In¬ 
spector notice. 

As soon as the cargo is fully discharged, the Inspector 
will make out duplicate hills (in the printed form pre¬ 
scribed) for the actual overtime, one of which hills he will 
deliver to the Consignees or master of the vessel, and will, 
without delay, send the other hill to the Surveyor for col¬ 
lection. 


XX.—DISCHARGING BOOKS. 

The Inspector assigned to superintend the delivery of 
cargo from a vessel, will he provided with an alphabetical 
discharging book, and he is required to enter therein, as 
soon as the same are received by him, all permits or orders 
for the delivery of merchandise from the vessel. The said 
entries shall show— 

1st. The name or names of the person or persons in whose 
behalf such permits are granted. 

2d. The particulars specified in said permits. 

3d. The marks, numbers, kinds, and description of the 
respective packages which are to be, and are, unladen 
pursuant thereto. 

4th. An account of all goods, wares, and merchandise 
sent to the appraiser’s stores, the public store under general 
order, or to any warehouse, or other place. (Act March 
2, 1799, § 53, H. D., p. 98.) 

The Discharging Officer shall keep a strict account and 
record of such articles as appear, on unlading the vessel 
to be damaged, and shall make proper return of the same. 
(Revised'Reg., 1869, Art. 198, p. 69.) 



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When the Inspector has completed his returns of the cargo 
delivered, the discharging hook must he lodged and kept 
at the Barge Office, subject to the orders of the Surveyor. 

XXI.—RETURNS OF CARGO. 

When the delivery of goods, wares, and merchandise 
from on hoard of any ship or vessel shall have heen com¬ 
pleted (and of this the Inspector must satisfy himself by a 
Careful examination of the hold and other portions of the vessel 
before leaving), copies of the accounts or entries which shall 
have heen kept or made thereof, hy the Inspector or In¬ 
spectors who shall have heen charged with the said 
deliveries, shall he returned to the Surveyor within three 
days after such delivery hath heen completed. And the 
accounts or entries to he returned as aforesaid shall com¬ 
prise all deliveries made pursuant to permits, and all pack¬ 
ages or merchandise sent to the respective warehouses, 
the appraiser’s stores, or the public stores under general 
order. Also, each and every package remaining on hoard 
such ship or vessel for the purpose of being exported 
therein to a foreign port or place, or to some other district 
of the United States. (Act March 2, 1799, § 55, H. D., 
p. 99.) 

The returns of a majority of vessels can he made within 
a few hours after the delivery of the cargo, and in such 
cases Inspectors are required to make their returns with¬ 
out delay. 

Vessels coming in ballast must be returned as soon as 
the Inspector having charge thereof has examined the 
vessel, and satisfied himself that there is no cargo on hoard. 

Facilities are provided at the Barge Office for making 
out returns, and Inspectors are required, instead of taking 
their hooks and papers home to make up their returns, to 


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perform that duty at the Barge Office. District Inspectors 
are exempted from this regulation. 

In making out returns, care should he taken to avoid 
errors; the return must he legihly and distinctly written 
in all particulars, aud each copy of the return must agree, 
page hy page, with the duplicate. 

Inspectors whose returns are carelessly or erroneously 
made out will he suspended, and reported to the Collector 
for removal. 

The returns of the Inspectors shall he according to the 
following form, viz. (Act March 2,1799, § 55, H. D., p. 99): 


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Tlie Inspector in making up Ins return, will first enter 
therein the baggage permit, if there is one, and will then 
enter, separately, all the duty-paid permits and warehouse 
orders, designating in the proper column such packages 
as were landed or sent to warehouse, and omitting the 
packages which were ordered on the permit or order to he 
sent to the Appraiser’s stores, the last-named packages to 
he stated in the public store column. In the marginal 
column must be noted (the same being omitted in the de¬ 
livery column) all packages “sent previous to receipt” of 
permit or order, or as “ not agreeing with permit or order,” 
or “ not found on board; ” and opposite to the entry of 
each warehouse order the designated warehouse to which 
the merchandise was sent. The name of the Deputy Col¬ 
lector by whose order any free permit was issued, must 
be stated in the marginal column. Special care must 
be taken to state the correct date of the delivery of mer¬ 
chandise from the vessel, and if it was delivered on more 
than one day, the first and last day on which each lot was 
landed must be stated. 

Packages which, when landed, appear to be damaged, 
must be noted in the return. After the permits and ware¬ 
house orders are entered, the Inspector will enter on the 
return, under the proper designation, all packages, by 
marks and numbers, which have been sent either to the 
Appraiser’s stores, to the several warehouses, to public store 
under general order, or elsewhere by special order, for all 
which packages a proper receipt will be required, to cor¬ 
respond with the entries in the return. 

The Inspector, after accounting for the cargo, must enter, 
at the end of his return, a list of all the sea-stores, and of 
all the coal remaining, in the vessel. 

The returns must be signed by the Inspectors, respect- 


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ively, under whose superintendence the deliveries of cargo 
shall have been made (Act March 2d, 1799, § 55, H. D., p. 
100), and the name of the Gauger or Weigher who has per¬ 
formed any duty relating to the cargo must he stated in 
the return. 

The returns, with all the permits, orders, receipts, and 
other papers relative to the cargo or return, must be 
delivered by the Inspector, personally, to the proper Clerk 
in the Surveyor’s Office, or to the Inspector assisting the 
Surveyor at the Barge Office, who will forthwith transmit 
the same to the Surveyor’s office. 

If the Inspector cannot obtain from the proper Store¬ 
keeper the receipt for merchandise sent to any warehouse 
or to the Appraiser’s store, the putting in of the return 
must not, for that reason, be delayed longer than three 
days after the delivery of the cargo. The Inspector will 
attach to his return a memorandum stating the reason 
why the proper receipt has not been obtained; and it 
shall be his duty to obtain the receipt at the earliest 
moment, and to send it to the Surveyor’s office. 


XXII.—ERRORS AND MISTAKES. 

Whenever an Inspector assigned to discharge the cargo 
of a vessel ascertains or is notified that he has sent there¬ 
from any package or merchandise by mistake to a store or 
warehouse to which it was not ordered, or has delivered 
to an Importer merchandise not belonging to him, the 
Inspector must at once correct his mistake by taking pos¬ 
session of the merchandise and having it transferred to its 
proper place of deposit. 

And when any package landed on a duty-paid permit 


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lias been by mistake sent into store or warehouse, the 
Inspector should at once withdraw the package for deliv¬ 
ery to the Importer. 

When notice is sent to an Inspector to call at the Sur¬ 
veyor’s office to correct or explain a return, he must report 
• himself for that purpose as soon as possible; and when 
any alteration or correction in his return is made by him, 
such alteration or correction must be checked with his 
initials; and if such correction or alteration is made after 
the returns have been transmitted to the Collector and 
Naval Officer, the alteration or correction must also be 
checked by a Deputy Surveyor. 

XXIII.—PROHIBITED IMPORTATIONS. 

The importation of indecent or obscene articles, prints, 
paintings, lithographs, engravings, images, figures, daguer¬ 
reotypes, photographs, and transparencies, is absolutely 
prohibited. All invoices or packages whereof any such 
articles shall compose a part, shall be seized and forfeited. 
(Act March 2, 1857, H. D., p. 390; Revised Reg., 1869, 
part IV, p. 1.) 

The importation of cigars in less quantity than 3,000 in 
a single package, or in boxes containing more than 500, is 
prohibited. (Act July 28, 1866, § 1, H. D., p. 501.) 

The importation of spirituous liquors in casks or other 
packages of less capacity than thirty gallons, and of wine 
in bottles of no ,greater capacity than one quart each, and 
in packages containing at least one dozen bottles, is like¬ 
wise prohibited. (Act July 28, 1866, § 1, H. D., p. 501.) 

The prohibition of entry of imported cigars unless con¬ 
tained in a package of not less than 3,000, under the act of 


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July 28, 1866, is not to be construed as prohibiting the 
entry of a reasonable quantity less than that amount on 
manifest as sea-stores. (Synopsis of Decisions 1869, 331.) 

If brandies or other spirituous liquors are contained 
immediately in casks, which are not in another outside 
covering or case, the casks must be of thirty gallons 
capacity, or larger; if such liquors are contained immedi¬ 
ately in bottles, casks, or other vessels of less than thirty 
gallons capacity, or if put up in cases of bottles, the cases 
being of less than that capacity, such bottles, casks, or 
other vessels, or cases, must be contained in another closed 
vessel or case of a capacity in cubical contents equivalent 
to thirty gallons or more, while such outer vessels should 
be so closed as effectually to conceal their contents and 
prevent their secret abstraction; it is not requisite that 
they should be capable of holdiug liquors directly in con¬ 
tact with their sides, but it is necessary that casks or 
cases put up in an outside covering or package, should be 
marked as well as such outside covering or case, so that 
they may be readily identified on entry and traced there¬ 
after. (Department Circular No. 8, May 18, 1869.) (See 
also Revised Reg., 1869, part TV, p. 1, and Synopsis of 
Decisions, 1868, 40, p. 11.) 

Under existing laws there are no restrictions as to the 
size of the package in which beer, ale, and porter may be 
imported. (Synopsis of Decisions, 1868, 63, p. 17.) 

Wine, other than that put up in bottles, may be imported 
in packages of any capacity. Synopsis of Decisions, 1868, 
17, p. 6.) 

Inspectors are directed to seize all packages, the impor¬ 
tation of which is prohibited. 


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XXIV.—PENALTIES FOR OBSTRUCTING OFFICERS IN THE 
DISCHARGE OF THEIR DUTY, FOR BRIBING OR GIVING 
GRATUITIES TO OFFICERS, AND FOR FALSELY PERSONAT¬ 
ING AN OFFICER. 

If any person or persons shall assault, resist, obstruct, 
or binder any Officer in the execution of this act, or of any 
other act or law of the United States herein mentioned, or 
of any of the powers or authorities vested in him by this 
act, or any other act or law as aforesaid, all and every 
person and persons so offending, shall, for every such 
offense, forfeit five hundred dollars. (Coasting Act, Feb. 
18, 1793, § 31, H. D., p. 47.) 

If any person shall forcibly resist, prevent, or impede 
any Officer of the Customs, or their deputies, or any person 
assisting them in the execution of their duty, such person 
so offending, shall, for every such offense, be fined in a sum 
not exceeding four hundred dollars; and if any master, or 
other person having the charge or command of any ship 
or vessel coming into or .arriving at any port or place 
within the United States, shall obstruct or hinder, or shall 
be the cause or means of any obstruction or hindrance 
with such an intent, to any Officer of the Customs or Rev¬ 
enue in going on board such ship or vessel for the purpose 
of carrying into effect any of the revenue laws of the 
United States, he shall forfeit for every such offense a sum 
not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than fifty 
dollars. (Collection Act, March 2d, 1799, § 71, H. D., p. 109, 
and Act March 3d, 1823, § 3, H. D., 219.) 

If any person shall forcibly assault, resist, oppose, 
prevent, impede, or interfere with any Officer of the Customs 
or liis deputy or deputies, or any person assisting them, or 
either of them, in the execution of their duties, or any 


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person authorized by this act to make searches or seizures, 
in the execution of his duty, or shall rescue, or attempt to 
rescue, or cause to be rescued, any property which shall 
have been seized by any person authorized as aforesaid, 
or shall before, at, or after, any such seizure, in order to 
prevent the seizure or securing of any goods, wares, or 
merchandise by any person authorized as aforesaid, stave, 
break, throw overboard, destroy, or remove the same, the 
person so offending shall, for every such offense, on con¬ 
viction thereof, forfeit and pay a sum of not less than one 
hundred dollars, nor more than two thousand dollars, or 
shall be imprisoned not less than one month, nor more than 
one year, or both, at the discretion of the court convicting 
him, or her, and shall stand committed until such fine and 
the costs of j)rosecution shall have been fully paid; and 
if any person shall discharge any deadly weapon at any 
person authorized as aforesaid to make searches or seizures, 
or shall use any deadly or dangerous weapon in resisting 
him in the execution of his duty, with intent to commit a 
bodily injury upon him, or to deter or prevent him from 
discharging his duty, every such person so offending shall, 
upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of felony, and 
shall be imprisoned at hard labor for a term not exceeding- 
ten years, nor less than one year. (Smuggling Act, July 
18, 1866, $ 6, H. D., p. 478.) 

If any person shall, directly or indirectly, at any time 
make, or offer to make, to any Officer of the Revenue, or to 
any other person or persons authorized by this act to 
make searches or seizures, any gratuity or present of money, 
or other thing of value, or give or offer any bribe or 
reward, of whatever nature, with intent to influence or 
induce such Officer or other person or persons to do any 
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act in violation of his or her or their official duty, or to 
refrain from doing anything which, under the law, it is or 
shall he his or her or their duty to do; or if any such 
Officer or person shall ask or receive in any manner any 
such gratuity, present, bribe, or reward, every person so 
offending shall be liable to indictment as for a high crime 
and misdemeanor in any court of the United States having 
jurisdiction for the trial of crimes and misdemeanors, and 
shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding three 
times the amount so offered, promised, or given, asked, or 
received, and imprisonment in a penitentiary not exceed¬ 
ing three years. (Smuggling Act, July 18, 1866, § 35, H. 
D., p. 485.) 

If any person who shall be engaged in the importation 
of goods, wares, or merchandise into the United States, or 
who shall be interested as principal, clerk, or agent in the 
entry of any goods, wares, or merchandise, shall at any 
time make, or offer to make, to any Officer of the Revenue, 
any gratuity or present of any money,^or other thing of 
value, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in 
any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, or be impris¬ 
oned not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the 
court. (Act March 3, 1863, $ 6, H. I)., p. 427.) 

If any person shall falsely represent himself to be a 
Revenue Officer of the United States, and shall, in such 
assumed character, demand or receive any money or other 
article of value from any person for any duty or tax due 
to the United States, or for any violation or pretended 
violation of any revenue law of the United States, such 
person shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on convic¬ 
tion thereof, shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dol¬ 
lars, and to imprisonment not less than six months and 


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not exceeding two years, at tlie discretion of the court. 
(Act March 2d, 1867, § 28, H. D., p. 517.) 

XXV.—POWERS AND AUTHORITIES OF OFFICERS OF THE 
CUSTOMS. 

It shall he lawful for any Officer of the Customs, includ¬ 
ing Inspectors, or of a Revenue Cutter, to go on hoard of 
any vessel, as well without as within his district, and to 
inspect, search, and examine the same, and any person, 
trunk, or envelope on board, and to this end to hail and 
stop such vessel if under way, and to use all necessary 
force to compel compliance; and if it shall appear that any 
breach or violation of the laws of the United States has been 
committed, whereby, or in consequence of which, such ves¬ 
sel, or the goods, wares, and merchandise, or any part 
thereof, on board of, or imported by such vessel, is or are 
liable to forfeiture, to make seizure of the same, or any part 
thereof, and to arrest, or in case of escape or any attempt 
to escape, to pursue and arrest any person engaged in 
sncli breach or violation. (Act July, 1866, § 2, H. D., 
p. 476.) 

Any of the Officers authorized to board or search vessels 
may stop, search, and examine, as well without as within 
their respective districts, any vehicle, beast, or person on 
which or whom he or they shall suspect there are goods, 
wares, or merchandise which are subject to duty, or shall 
have been introduced into the United States contrary to 
law, whether by the person in possession or charge, or by, in, 
or upon such vehicle or beast, or otherwise, and to search 
any trunk or envelope, wherever found, in which he may 
have reasonable cause to suspect there are goods which 
were imported contrary to law; and if any such Officer shall 
find any goods, wares, or merchandise on or about any 


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such vehicle, beast, or person, or in any such trunk or 
envelope, which he shall have reasonable cause to believe 
are subject to duty, or to have been unla wfully introduced 
into the United States, whether by the person in posses¬ 
sion or charge, or by, in, or upon such vehicle, beast, or 
otherwise, he shall seize and secure the same for trial. 
Aud every such vehicle and beast, or either, together with 
teams or other motive power used in conveying, drawing, 
or propelling such vehicle, goods, wares, or merchandise, 
and all other appurtenances, including trunks, envelopes, 
covers, and all means of concealment, and all the equipage, 
trappings, and other appurtenances of such beast, team, 
or vehicle, shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture. And 
if any person who may be driving or conducting, or in 
charge of any such carriage or vehicle, or beast, or any 
person traveling, shall wilfully refuse to stop and allow 
search and examination to be made as herein provided, 
when required to do so by any Officer, he or she shall, on 
conviction, be fined in any sum, in the discretion of the 
court convicting him or her, not exceeding one thousand 
dollars, nor less than fifty dollars. (Act July 18,1866, § 3, 
H. D., p. 476.) 

Auy Officer authorized to make searches and seizures, or 
any person assisting him, or acting under his directions, 
may, if deemed necessary by him or them, enter into or 
upon, or pass through the lauds, inclosures, or buildings, 
other than the dwelling house, of any person whomsoever, 
in the night or in the day time, in order to the more effect¬ 
ual discharge of his or their official duties. (Act July 18, 
1866, § 5, H. D., p. 477.) 

If an Officer or Officers of the Customs shall have cause to 
suspect that any goods, wares, or merchandise subject to 
duty are concealed in any particular dwelling house, he 


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or they shall, upon proper application, on oath, to any 
Justice of the Peace, be entitled to a warrant to enter such 
house (in the day time only), and there to search for such 
goods, and if any shall be found to seize and secure the 
same for trial. (Act March 2d, 1799, § 68, H. D., p. 108.) 

Before making any such application, the Officer will 
report the facts and circumstances of the case to the Sur¬ 
veyor, who will give him directions how to proceed. 

Every Officer or other person authorized to make seizures 
by this act shall, at the time of executing any of the powers 
conferred upon him by this act, make known, upon being 
questioned, his character as an Officer of the Customs or 
government, and shall have authority to demand of any 
person within the distance of three miles to assist him in 
making any arrest, search, or seizure authorized by this 
act when such assistance may be necessary ,• and if such 
person shall, without reasonable excuse, neglect or refuse 
so to assist upon proper demand, he shall be deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 
two hundred dollars, nor less than five dollars. (Act 
July 18, 1866, § 10, H. D;, p. 479.) 

The severity and extent of the foregoing provisions and 
powers is such, that extreme caution, discretion, and for¬ 
bearance are requisite in their enforcement and exercise. 
They are not to be put in operation upon hasty or trivial 
charges, nor ever used in full force, except when absolutely 
necessary in extreme cases. Officers are cautioned that 
such extensive powers are ever strictly construed, and 
exact observance required of every form of law to the 
most minute particular; and that the arbitrary and un¬ 
necessary use of these powers cannot fail to be punished 
by the courts in an exemplary manner, and will certainly 


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not be sustained by tbe government. (Revised Reg., 1869, 
Part VI, Art. 9, p. 6.) 

XXVI.—PROHIBITIONS AND PENALTIES. 

No Officer of tbe Customs shall own, either in whole or 
in part, any ship or vessel, or act as agent, attorney, or con¬ 
signee for the owner or owners of any ship or vessel, or of 
any cargo or lading on board the same; nor shall any Officer 
of the Customs import, or be concerned, directly or indi¬ 
rectly, in the importation of any goods, wares, or merchan¬ 
dise, for sale, into the United States, on penalty that every 
person so offending, and being thereof convicted, shall 
forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars. (Act 
March 2, 1799, $ 86, H. D., p. 126.) 

If any Officer of the Customs shall, directly or indirectly, 
take or receive any bribe, reward, or recompense for con¬ 
niving, or shall connive at any false entry of any ship or 
vessel, or of any goods, wares, or merchandise, and shall 
be convicted thereof, every such Officer shall forfeit and 
pay a sum not less than two hundred dollars, nor more 
than two thousand dollars. (Act March 2, 1799, § 88, H. 
D., p. 126.) 

If any Officer of the Customs shall demand or receive 
any greater or other fee, compensation, or reward for exe¬ 
cuting any duty or service required of him by law, he shall 
forfeit and pay two hundred dollars; and if any Inspector 
shall receive any gratuity, fee, or reward for any service 
performed by virtue of his office, other than is by law 
allowed, he shall, for the first offense, forfeit and pay the 
sum of fifty dollars, and for the second offense shall forfeit 
two hundred dollars, and be discharged from the public 
service. (Act March 2, 1799, § 73, H. D., p. 110.) 


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If any Officer of the Revenue shall, by collusion with any 
importer or other person, or by means of any false weight 
or measure, or of any false classification as to quality or 
value of any goods, wares, or merchandise, or by any other 
means whatever, knowingly admit, or aid in admitting, to 
entry any such goods, wares, or merchandise, upon the 
payment of less than the amount of duty legally due 
thereon, or shall knowingly accept from any person engaged 
in the importation of goods, wares, or merchandise into 
the United States, or interested as principal, clerk, or agent 
in any such importation, or in the entry of any goods, 
wares, or merchandise, any fee, gratuity, or emolument 
whatsoever, such officer shall, on conviction thereof, he 
removed from office, and shall be fined in any sum not 
exceeding five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not ex¬ 
ceeding two years, at the discretion of the court. (Act 
March 3, 1863, $ 5, H. D., p. 427.) 


XXVII.—SEIZURES. 

To constitute a valid seizure there must be open, visible 
possession claimed, and authority exercised under the 
seizure. A seizure once voluntarily abandoned loses its 
validity, and a new seizure must be made before a prose¬ 
cution can be instituted. (Revised Reg., 1869, part VI, art. 
11, p. 7.) 

All goods, wares, merchandise, or property of any kind, 
seized under the provisions of any law of the United States 
relating to the Customs, shall, unless otherwise provided 
for by law, be placed and remain in the custody of the 
Collector. (Act July 18,1866, $ 31, H. D., p. 484.) 

Goods, wares, or merchandise seized by an Inspector 
or other Officer of the Customs, must be forthwith sent to 
the Seizure Room, Custom-house, and be accompanied by 


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a receipt (ticket) describing tlie packages and from whence 
seized, which receipt will be signed by the keeper of the 
Seizure Room, and be returned to the seizing officer. 

The Inspector or other Officer will, as soon as practicable, 
make a report of the seizure, in the form prescribed, stating 
particularly the facts and circumstances connected with 
the seizure. Four copies of the report are required, two 
of which will be addressed to the Collector, one to the 
Naval Officer, and one to the Surveyor. The reports of 
seizure and receipt for the goods will be delivered to the 
Seizure Clerk of the Surveyor’s Office, who, after entering 
the seizure on the record, and submitting them to the Sur¬ 
veyor for his certificate thereon, will transmit the copies 
addressed to the Collector and Naval Officer, respectively, 
to those officers. 

Inspectors and other Officers making seizures are entitled 
(in case there is no informer) to a portion of the proceeds 
realized therefrom. (Act March 2,1867, $ 1, H. D., p. 519.) 

The mode by which books, papers, and accounts may be 
seized and examined is prescribed in Act of March 2,1867, 
§ 2, H. D., p. 519. 


XXVIII.—RESIDENCE AND LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 

Each Inspector and other Officer of the Customs under the 
superintendence and direction of the Surveyor is required 
to report the place of his residence within the district, 
and any change thereof which may be made, to the Auditor 
of the Surveyor’s office. 

When an Inspector or other Officer desires leave of 
absence, he must make a written application therefor, ad¬ 
dressed to the Collector and Surveyor, and stating the 
reasons why such leave is desired. Before his application 
is presented to the Surveyor it must be checked by the 


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Inspector assisting the Surveyor, or by the Deputy under 
whose direction the Inspector is doing duty. 

THE INSPECTRESSES. 

The Secretary of the Treasury may provide for the em¬ 
ployment of Female Inspectors for the examination and 
search of persons of their own sex. (Act July 18,1866, $ 3, 
H. D., p. 477.) 

The Inspectresses will he severally assigned to duty by 
the Surveyor, at such place or places as may be designated 
by him. 

Upon the arrival of a steamship from a foreign port, notice 
will be sent from the Barge Office to the Inspectress or In¬ 
spectresses, who has, or have, been designated to attend at 
the place where the baggage of the cabin passengers of said 
steamer will be landed, and .upon receiving such notice the 
Inspectress, or Inspectresses, will report, without delay, to 
the Deputy Surveyor, or Inspector in Charge, at the place 
designated, and there remain until relieved from further 
attendance by the Deputy Surveyor or Inspector in Charge. 

The Inspectresses are required to keep themselves in¬ 
formed of the time when steamers are expected, so that 
upon receipt of notice thereof they may be ready to report 
themselves for duty in proper time. 

Upon being directed to do so by the Deputy Surveyor or 
Inspector in Charge, the Inspectress, or Inspectresses, on 
duty, will carefully search and examine any female pas¬ 
senger or passengers who may be sent to them for that 
purpose, and if, on such examination and search, there 
shall be found concealed upon the person of any such pas¬ 
senger any goods, wares, or merchandise, or any articles 
subject to duty, the Inspectress or Inspectresses shall seize 
and secure the same. 


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All goods, wares, and merchandise, or articles subject to 
duty, seized by them, must be sent to the Seizure Room, 
and reports must be made of the seizure in the manner 
hereinbefore provided. 

THE COAST INSPECTORS. 

The Coast Inspectors on Long Island are appointed to 
protect the interests of the Revenue with respect to all 
goods, wares, and merchandise which may be landed from, 
or in any way come to the land, from any vessel from a 
foreign port, and wrecked or stranded upon the coast of 
Long Island. 

On learning that any vessel has been wrecked or stran¬ 
ded, the Coast Inspector residing nearest the place where 
the casualty has occurred, will at once proceed to, or as 
near the location of the stranded or wrecked vessel as is 
possible, and as soon as he ascertains the situation of the 
vessel, to make report, in writing, to the Surveyor, of all 
the facts and circumstances in relation thereto. In case 
the vessel is likely to break up, or if the condition of the 
vessel is such that it is probable cargo will be landed or 
discharged therefrom, he shall remain at or near the wreck, 
and take possession, and keep charge of, all goods and 
merchandise which may come, or be brought, to land. 

In case the cargo of a vessel wrecked or stranded is de¬ 
livered into lighters, or other vessel, for conveyance to the 
port of New York, the Coast Inspector will keep an account 
thereof, and before any lighter, or vessel, having on board 
any of the cargo, is allowed to depart, will make out two 
lighter manifests, in the form prescribed, stating as par¬ 
ticularly as possible what cargo has been taken on board 
thereof, both of which lighter manifests the master of the 
lighter or other vessel will be required to sign. One copy 


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of sucli lighter bill shall he retained by said master, and 
be by him delivered at the Custom-honse on the arrival of 
the lighter or vessel at New York; the other copy will be 
transmitted by the Coast Inspector to the Surveyor. 

Whenever necessary the Surveyor will send to any 
wrecked or stranded vessel an Inspector of the Customs 
to perform such duty as may be required of him. 

The compensation of the Coast Inspectors will be paid 
every six months, to wit, in January and July; and in 
order to a proper adjustment of their respective compen¬ 
sation, it is desirable that they agree upon a day when 
they can all be present at the Surveyor’s office for that 
purpose. 

DISTRICT OFFICERS. 


I.—ASSIGNMENTS. 

Inspectors will be assigned to districts by the Surveyor, 
and will be transferred to other districts or duty at his 
discretion. 

II.—ATTENDANCE AND OFFICES. 

It shall be the duty of the Inspectors assigned to duty 
as District Officers to be on their respective districts at 
sunrise, and to remain thereon until sunset; to have the 
general supervision of all vessels that come upon their 
districts, and to see that nothing is landed from any vessel 
in the absence of the Discharging Inspector, and to make 
report to the Surveyor of any infraction or violation of 
the revenue laws coming to their knowledge. 

It is enjoined upon District Officers, where two are as¬ 
signed to a district, that at no time between sunrise and 
sunset shall the district be left without one of them being 
present for duty thereon. 


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Although no provision has been made by the Department 
for reimbursing to District Officers their expenses for office 
rent, the transaction of their clerical and other duties 
requires that they should have an office or particular place 
upon their district where they can be found when not per¬ 
forming duty on the wharves. They will report to the 
Surveyor the location of their offices, and any change 
thereof made. 


III.—DAILY REPORTS TO BE MADE. 

District Inspectors are required to send daily to the 
Inspector assisting the Surveyor at the Barge Office, and 
also to the Surveyor’s Office, are port of all vessels which 
arrived on their respective districts during the day pre¬ 
vious, specifying in said reports those vessels which have 
come from other districts partially discharged, or if wholly 
discharged, to state the fact. 

IV.—TO EXAMINE AND DISCHARGE VESSELS. 

Whenever a vessel from a foreign port comes upon a 
district, it shall be the duty of the District Officer to ascer¬ 
tain whether a Discharging Officer is in charge thereof, 
and if no discharging officer is present, and the hatches 
and other openings to the hold have not been locked or 
sealed, to make an examination of the vessel as required 
by law and to seal and secure the same, until anlnspector 
regularly assigned takes charge thereof. 

Whenever a District Officer is required to superintend 
the delivery of the cargo of a vessel, notice to do so, in 
writing, will be sent to him by the Inspector assisting the 
Surveyor, and the delivery of the cargo will then be made 
under his supervision. The laws and regulations govern- 


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ing the landing of cargo and the making of the returns 
thereof are hereinbefore given. 

Whenever a vessel in charge of a District Officer shall, 
after landing a portion of the cargo thereof, leave his dis¬ 
trict and go to any other district to discharge the balance 
of the cargo, he is required to indorse upon the permit or 
permits delivered to him, what portion, or how much of 
the cargo has been landed under his supervision ; and the 
permit or permits so indorsed by him, will be forthwith 
transmitted to the Inspector assisting the Surveyor for 
delivery to the Inspector or District Officer to whom the 
supervision of the landing of the balance of the cargo is 
committed. The Inspector or District Officer having 
charge of the final delivery of the cargo will make the 
returns thereof. 

Y.—EXPORTS, TRANSFERS, ETC. 

District Inspectors, whenever properly directed so to 
do, are required to inspect and superintend the shipment 
or lading of merchandise exported for benefit of drawback 
or return of duty; to deliver or send as directed all mer¬ 
chandise in bond coming coastwise upon their district; 
and to superintend the transfer of surplus, sea-stores or 
merchandise from one vessel to another. 

VI.—EXPORT ENTRIES, AND ORDERS THEREON. 

Entries for direct export comprise the original, and a 
copy. Entries for export by way of another port or place, 
comprise the original and two copies, one of the latter 
being the “ manifest copy.” 

Upon all entries for the export of merchandise there will 
be found an order, signed by the Collector and Naval 
Officer, requiring the Surveyor u to direct an Inspector to 


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examine the goods described in the entry, and if found to 
agree exactly therewith, to superintend the lading,” &c., 
and also stamped thereupon, the direction of the Surveyor 
to the district officer, as follows: 11 No.-. To the Dis¬ 
trict Inspector,-, Surveyor.” 

Unless this direction to the District Officer is made, the 
Officer has no authority to act, and entries delivered to 
him without this authority should he at once returned to 
the Debenture Room. 

In case the merchandise is to be exported direct, the 
order of the Collector and Naval Officer to the Surveyor 
will give the name of the export vessel, and the port of 
destination. If the merchandise is to be exported by way 
of another port or place, the order will give the name of 
such port or place, and also the place to which the mer¬ 
chandise is to be exported, and upon the face of the origi¬ 
nal entry will be stated the line of boats, vessel, or railroad, 
by which the merchandise is to be sent. 

VII.—DELIVERY OF MERCHANDISE FOR EXPORT TO THE 
SURVEYOR. 

When a Discharging Inspector or Storekeeper receives an 
order to deliver to the Surveyor for export or transfer any 
merchandise, the delivery must be made either to a Deben¬ 
ture Inspector sent to the vessel or warehouse to receive 
the same, or to the District Officer in whose district the 
vessel is discharging, or upon which the warehouse is 
located. 

When merchandise is received by a Debenture Inspector, 
he will give the necessary receipt upon the back of the 
delivery order. 

Merchandise for export will not be received by a District 



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Officer, unless the delivery order is stamped upon its face 
as follows: “ Inspector (or storekeeper) deliver to 
District Inspector. -, Surveyor.” 

If a District Officer receives merchandise for export, and 
the export vessel is lying in his district, he is required to 
superintend the transfer to, and the lading thereof, on 
hoard of the export vessel as hereinafter provided. 

If the merchandise is to he sent to another district for 
shipment, the delivery order will have upon its face an 
additional stamp, as follows: “ District Inspector send 

BY LIGHTER TO SHIPPING OFFICER AT PIER. -, SUR¬ 

VEYOR.” 

The District Officer who receives the merchandise from 
the import vessel, or warehouse, will superintend the 
lading of the merchandise on board the lighter, and, before 
it leaves his district, make out two lighter hills or mani¬ 
fests, describing therein the merchandise taken on board, 
and stating from what place the merchandise was deliv¬ 
ered, and at what place it is to be shipped; the name of 
the District Officer sending the merchandise must be sub¬ 
scribed to the lighter bills or manifests. The master of 
the lighter will be required to sign both lighter bills or 
manifests, one of which will be retained by the District 
Officer, and the other will be given to the master of the 
lighter for delivery to the District Officer to whom the 
merchandise is directed to be delivered, and the number 
of whose office, or place where he can be found will be 
written on the lighter bill. 

When any packages are not sent by the lighter, because 

they are “ empty,” or because the contents thereof have 

been taken to “ fill up,” the fact must be stated in the 

lighter bills or manifests. 

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VIII.—TRANSFER TO DISTRICT OFFICER FOR SHIPMENT. 

When merchandise for export is transferred from the 
import vessel, or warehouse in charge of a Debenture 
Inspector, and the merchandise is at or alongside of the 
export vessel, the Debenture Inspector will deliver the 
export entries to the District Officer, who is required forth¬ 
with to inspect and examine the merchandise, and if found 
to agree in all respects with the entries, to superintend 
the lading thereof, according to the orders and directions 
upon the entry. 

When entries are sent from the Debenture Room to a 
District Officer, with notice that the merchandise is coming 
to his district by lighter from another district, the District 
Inspector receiving the entries is required to ascertain 
whether the lighter has arrived on his district, and as 
soon as it does arrive thereon, to demand of the master 
thereof the lighter bill or manifest given to him by the 
District Officer from whose district the merchandise was 
brought. The District Officer will thereupon allow the 
merchandise to be landed from the lighter, and will 
inspect and examine the same, and on finding that it 
agrees with the lighter bill or manifest, and with the 
export entries in his possession, will superintend the 
lading thereof, according to the orders and directions upon 
the entry. 

District Inspectors are directed not to allow lighters 
having on board merchandise for export to unload until 
the master produces a proper lighter bill or manifest signed 
by a District Officer, nor until the export entries are 
received by him from the Debenture Room. 

If the merchandise is laden on board of a canal boat, 
vessel, or railroad, for conveyance to any port or place, to 


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be from thence exported, the District Officer will, as soon 
as the merchandise is on hoard, deliver to the master of 
the canal boat, or other person in charge of the transpor¬ 
tation of sncli merchandise, the “ manifest copy ” (properly 
certified) of the entry. 

IX.—CERTIFICATE OF SHIPMENT.. 

When the lading of the merchandise on board the vessel, 
canal boat, or other conveyance is completed, the District 
Officer under whose supervision the same was done, will 
indorse upon the original entry, and upon the copy 
thereof, a certificate of the shipment in the following form, 
viz.: 

“ Port of New York,-, 187 —. 

“ I, A. B., Inspector, have examined the goods described 
in the within entry, and finding them to agree therewith, 
they were laden under my supervision on board the [name 
of the vessel], [name of master], master, for [port of des¬ 
tination]. 

“ -, Inspector. 

[“Name of Weigher, &c.”] 

When the merchandise has been weighed or gauged for 
export, the name of the Weigher or Gauger by whom the 
same was done will be given underneath the certificates. 

X.—SHORT SHIPMENTS. 

Whenever, for any reason, any part or portion of the 
merchandise described in an export entry is not shipped 
in accordance with the orders and direction upon the 
entry, the District Inspector will indorse upon the entries 
a certificate in the following form, to wit: 

5 





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“Port of New York, 


187—. 


“I, A. B., Inspector, have examined the goods described 
in the within entry, and finding them to agree therewith, 
in part, they were laden under my supervision, on board 
the-,-, master, for-. 

“-, Inspector. 

“-, Weigher” 


And the number of packages or quantity of merchandise 
not shipped must be particularly stated underneath the 
certificates, and the reason why (if known) the merchan¬ 
dise was not shipped, and what disposition was made 
of the same, must also be stated. 


XI.—FILLING UP PACKAGES. 

Merchandise must be exported in the original packages 
in which it was imported; but the exporters of liquors in 
casks (and of some other kinds of merchandise) may be 
allowed to fill up the casks or packages out of other casks 
or packages included in the same original importation, or 
into new casks or packages corresponding therewith, to 
be marked and numbered as the original casks or packages. 
In case the original casks or packages shall, in the opinion 
of the officer appointed to examine the same, be so injured 
as to be rendered unfit for exportation, and in no other 
case: provided, that the filling up or change of package to 
be done under the inspection of a proper officer. (Act 
March 2d, 1799, $ 75, H. D., p. 112. and Act March 1, 1823, 
$ 32, H. D., p. 214.) 

The law does not authorize the subdivision of packages, 
nor any change in them for the mere convenience of impor¬ 
ters. (Synopsis of Decisions, 1868, 19, p. 6.) 

When upon an original entry an order is made by the 
Collector to “ fill up” or “repack,” the same must be done 
either under the supervision of the Storekeeper at the 









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warehouse, or under the supervision of the Inspector who 
receives the merchandise from the warehouse or import 
vessel. 

XII.—DISPOSITION OF MERCHANDISE NOT SHIPPED. 

When merchandise has been delivered to a District Officer 
for export, and such merchandise cannot he shipped as 
directed by the orders upon the entries, either because the 
vessel refuses to, or cannot, take on board the whole or any 
part thereof, or because the exporters refuse to have the 
same [shipped, or for any other reason, he is directed to 
send such unshipped merchandise to the nearest General 
Order Store, with a ticket or receipt describing the mer¬ 
chandise and stating upon it that the merchandise is “for 
export , but not shipped ,” which ticket or receipt will be 
signed by the Storekeeper of such store. 

When the export entries are returned to the Debenture 
Room, the ticket or receipt for goods not shaped and sent 
to the General Order Store will be attached to the original 
entry. 


XIII.—RETURN OF ENTRIES AND CERTIFICATE. 

Export Entries (properly certified) must be returned to 
the Debenture Room by the District Inspector by whom the 
merchandise was laden on board of the export vessel or 
other conveyance on the day after the shipment was com¬ 
pleted, before one o’clock p m. 

XIV.—PENALTY FOR MAKING FALSE CERTIFICATES. 

If any Inspector or other Officer of the Customs shall cer¬ 
tify the shipment of any merchandise entitled to drawback 
on exportation, without having duly inspected and exam- 


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ined tlie same after lie sliall have received the permit for 
lading such merchandise, he shall, for the first offense, for¬ 
feit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, and for the second 
offense, shall forfeit two hundred dollars, and he dis¬ 
charged from the public service. (Act March 2d, 1799, 
§ 73, H. D., p. 111.; 

XV.—SPECIAL ORDERS FOR SHIPMENT. 

Whenever the shipment of merchandise is allowed to he 
made before the export entries therefor are completed at 
the Custom-house, a special order therefor will he issued 
by the Collector and Naval Officer, hut such special order 
must not he acted upon unless the proper direction, 
“No.——. To the District Inspector. -, Sur¬ 

veyor,” is stamped thereupon. 

Upon receipt of such special order, properly indorsed by 
the District Inspector, he is required to inspect and examine 
the merchandise and to superintend the lading thereof, 
according to the directions of the special order. 

The District Officer will retain the special order in his 
possession until tlie export entries are received by him, 
and the order will he attached to the original entry and 
he returned with it to the Debenture Room. 


XVI.—DELIVERY OR STORING OF COASTWISE BONDED 
MERCHANDISE. 

When merchandise in bond is brought coastwise upon 
any district, the District Inspector will take possession of 
the merchandise. If a duty-paid permit therefor is de¬ 
livered to him, he will allow the merchandise to be taken 
by the owner thereof, except such packages as may be 



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designated on the permit to he sent to the Appraiser’s 
Store for examination. The packages so designated must 
he sent by the District Inspector without delay to the 
Appraiser’s Store, with the usual ticket or receipt. The 
permit, properly indorsed, with the receipt aforesaid, will 
he returned to the Surveyor’s Office. 

If the coastwise merchandise is entered for rewarehous¬ 
ing, an order to send the same to a designated warehouse 
will he issued in the following form, viz.: 

“ Custom-house, New York, 

“ Collector’s Office ,-, 187—. 

“ To the Inspector of the Port: 

“ You are directed to send to the Bonded Warehouse, 
No-,-Street, 


brought into this district hy-from-. 

u -, Collector. 

“ -, Naval Officer 

Upon receipt of which the District Inspector will send 
the merchandise as directed hy the permit, and obtain the 
necessary receipts therefor. The receipts are in the form 
following, to wit: 

“ I certify that the goods designated herein, with the 
exception of such as are ordered to the Appraiser’s Store, 
have been deposited in store No.-,-Street. 

“-, Storekeeper. 

u I certify that the goods ordered to the Appraisers’ 
Store have been duly received there. 

u -, Storekeeper .” 

The order and receipts will he returned to the Sur vey¬ 
or’s Office. 















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XVII.—TRANSFER OF SURPLUS SEA-STORES OR 
MERCHANDISE. 

Whenever surplus sea-stores are to be transferred from one 
vessel to another, the order directing the Discharging 
Inspector to “deliver to Surveyor” will be stamped “In¬ 
spector deliver to District Inspector,” and the ship¬ 
ping order will be stamped “No.-. To the District 

Inspector. -, Surveyor.” 

When both vessels are lying within, or on the same 
district, the District Inspector Avill receive the surplus sea- 
stores described in the order as they are landed from the 
vessel, and have the same transferred to the export vessel 
and superintend the lading thereof on board of such 
vessel. 

When surplus sea-stores are to be transferred from a 
vessel to another vessel lying upon or in another district, 
a Debenture Inspector will be sent to receive and accom¬ 
pany the goods and to deliver them and the shipping order 
to the District Inspector whereon whose district the export 
vessel is lying. 

When merchandise (other than sea-stores) is to be trans¬ 
ferred either from warehouse or store, or vessel, to a ves¬ 
sel for shipment, a Debenture Inspector will be sent with 
the proper orders to receive and accompany the goods to 
the export vessel, and will deliver the shipping order to 
the proper District Inspector who will superintend the 
lading of the merchandise. 

The stores or merchandise must, in all cases, be com¬ 
pared with the description thereof in the shipping order, 
and any discrepancies or deficiences noted. When the 
lading of the stores or merchandise is completed, the 
District Inspector under whose supervision the same was 




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done will make a certificate of tlie lading on the back of 
the shipping order and return it to the Debenture Room. 

If an order for the delivery and transfer of surplus sea- 
stores is issued after the Discharging Officer has left the 
vessel, such stores may be landed under the supervision of 
the District Inspector upon whose district the import ves¬ 
sel* is lying, and the delivery order therefor will be by him 
indorsed “Delivered (date), (signature of) Inspector .” The 
delivery order thus indorsed will be returned by him to 
the Surveyor’s Office, to be filed with the records of the 
vessel. 


XVIII.—EXAMINATION OF COASTING VESSELS. 

District Officers are required to make, as often as may 
be necessary, an examination of all coasting vessels coming 
upon their districts, to ascertain whether the papers of 
such vessels (if they have any) are in conformity to law. 

The following brief synopsis of the laws relative to the 
coasting trade, will give the necessary information with 
respect to such vessels. 

United States vessels engaged in foreign trade (i. e. 
between the United States and a foreign country) must 
be registered. (Act December 31, 1792, H. D., p. 25.) 

United States vessels engaged in the coasting trade ( i . e. 
between ports and places within the United States) of 
twenty tons or upward, if not registered, must be enrolled 
and licensed; if less than twenty tons, and more than five 
tons, licensed only. (Act February 18, 1793, H. D., p. 36.) 

The name of every vessel, and the port to which she 
belongs, must be painted on her stern in white letters of 
not less than three inches in length, on black ground. In 
default of these requirements, in case of a registered ves¬ 
sel, the owners forfeit fifty dollars; in case of a licensed 


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vessel, twenty dollars. (Act December 31, 1792, $ 3, H. 
D., p. 26; Act February 18, 1793, $ 11, H. D.,p. 40.) 

Every steam vessel must, in addition, liave her name 
conspicuously placed in distinct, plain letters, of not less 
that six inches in length, on each outer side of the pilot¬ 
house, if there is one; and in case the vessel has side- 
wheels, also on the outer side of each wheel-house, iln 
default of these requirements, in case of a registered ves¬ 
sel, the owners forfeit fifty dollars; in case of a licensed 
vessel, twenty dollars. (Act May 5, 1864, § 1, H. D., p* 
439.) 

The tonnage of every vessel must be carved or perma¬ 
nently marked on her main beam (act May 6, 1864, $ 3, 
H. D., p. 442), and the official number (if any is) awarded 
to any vessel must also be carved or marked on her main 
beam. If at any time the tonnage or number cease to be 
so marked, the vessel will not be recognized as a vessel of 
the United States. (Act July 28,1866, § 13, H. D., p. 504.) 

To change, in any way, the name of a vessel, or by any 
device, advertisement, or contrivance to deceive, or at¬ 
tempt to deceive, as to the true name of such vessels, 
eutails a forfeiture of the vessel. (Act May 5, 1864, § 2, 
H. D., p. 440.) 

A vessel found with a forged or altered license, or mak¬ 
ing use of a license granted for any other vessel, will be 
forfeited. (Act February 18, 1793, §§ 5, 32, H. D., pp. 
38, 47.) 

A license is in no case valid for a longer period than one 
year, but enrollments are valid for any length of time, 
until the happening of a contingency requiring their sur¬ 
render. (Act February 18, 1793, § 4, H. D., p. 38.) 

A license must be surrendered and be renewed within 
three days after its expiration; or, if it expire while the 


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vessel is absent from the district to which she belongs, 
within three days from her arrival therein. If the vessel 
be sold out of the district, the license must be surrendered 
within three days after the arrival of the master within 
any district. If the master of a vessel refuse or neglect to 
surrender th$ license, he shall forfeit fifty dollars. (Act 
February 18, 1793, $ 9, H. D., p. 39.) 

The enrollment and license of a vessel expires whenever 
there is a change of owner, or an alteration in the size or 
rig. (Act February 18, 1793, § 5, H. D., p. 38.) 

Every change of master must be reported to the Collector 
of the port, and be indorsed on the register or license; 
neglect or refusal to comply with this requirement sub¬ 
jects the master to a penalty—in the case of a registered 
vessel, of $100, and of licensed vessels, of $10. (Act Dec. 
31, 1792, $ 15, H. D., p. 32; Act Feb. 18,1793, § 17, H. D., p. 
40.) 

Vessels engaged in the coasting trade, without papers, if 
laden with American production or manufactures, or in 
ballast, are subjected to foreign tonnage duty; or if laden 
wholly or in part with foreign merchandise, to forfeiture. 
(Act Feb. 18, 1793, $ 6, H. D., p. 39.) 

A licensed vessel trading within any district, or between 
any two or more districts north of the southern limits of 
Georgia, if laden wholly with American produce or manu¬ 
factures (distilled spirits excepted), is not required to 
enter or clear; but the master must be provided with a 
manifest of his cargo, under a penalty of twenty dollars, 
and if any part of the cargo is of foreign growth or pro¬ 
duction, under a penalty of forty dollars. 

But if the vessel has on board distilled spirits, or foreign 
merchandise in original packages, as imported, exceeding 
in value four hundred dollars, or foreign produce or manu- 


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factures exceeding in tlie aggregate tlie value of eight 
hundred dollars, the master must he provided with dupli¬ 
cate manifests of his cargo, and must enter his vessel at 
the Custom-house, and obtain a permit for the delivery of 
the cargo, under a penalty of one hundred dollars for any 
neglect so to do. 

And when a licensed vessel is trading between two dis¬ 
tricts, one of which is south of Georgia, if laden with for¬ 
eign or American produce, or comes in ballast, the master 
must be provided with duplicate manifests of his cargo, if 
any, or otherwise the manifests must state that his vessel 
is in ballast, and must enter his vessel at the Custom¬ 
house, and produce a permit for unlading his cargo, under 
a like penalty. (Act Feb. 18, 1793, $$ 14, 15, 16, 17, and 
18, H. D., p. 40 ; Act March 3, 1819, H. D., p. 190.) 

It shall be lawful at all times for any Officer concerned 
in the collection of the Revenue, to inspect the enrollment 
and license of any vessel, and if the master of any such 
vessel shall not exhibit the same when required by the 
officer, he shall pay one hundred dollars. (Act Feb. 18, 
1793, $13, H. D., p. 40.) 

The refusal of a master to answer the questions of an 
Inspector, or other Officer, in relation to his vessel, the 
cargo or the papers thereof, subjects him to a penalty of 
one hundred dollars. (Act Feb. 18,1793, $ 18, H. D., p. 43.) 

The coasting laws do not extend to any boat or lighter 
not being masted, or if masted and not decked, employed 
in the harbor of any town or city. (Act Feb. 18,1793, $ 37, 
H. D., p. 48.) 

Yachts of twenty tons or upwards may bo licensed, and 
when so licensed, are not required to enter or clear at any 
port; but such vessels are not allowed to transport mer- 


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chandise or carry passengers for hire. (Act Aug. 7, 1848, 
H. D., p. 313.) 

XIX.—DISTRICT OFFICER’S RECORDS. 

District Officers are required to keep a record hook in 
the form prescribed by the Surveyor, iu which they shall 
enter, with all the necessary particulars, all export entries; 
orders for delivery or storing of coastwise goods, and of 
all transfer orders received or acted upon by them. 

District Officers are also required to keep a record book 
in the form prescribed by the Surveyor, in which they 
shall enter the name, with all the necessary particulars, 
of each coasting vessel examined by them. 

All record books must be safely kept, and whenever re¬ 
quired, be produced to the Surveyor for his inspection. 

THE DEBENTUEE OFFICEKS. 


I.—ATTENDANCE. 

The Inspectors assigned for duty to the Debenture Eoom 
are required to be in attendance daily at 9 o’clock a. m., 
and to remain therein during business hours, unless sent 
out on duty. 

Debenture Inspectors must not absent themselves from 
duty without leave, and all applications for leave of 
absence must be checked by the Inspector in charge. 

II.—THE INSPECTOR IN CHARGE. 

The Inspector in charge of the Debenture Eoom is re¬ 
quired to send to the Surveyor, daily, a report stating who 
of the Debenture Inspectors were in attendance the pre¬ 
vious day, at what hour they each arrived, how many times 
during the day each one was sent out for duty, and who 


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of them were absent, and the reason (if known) of such 
absence. 

Whenever the number of Debenture Inspectors is in¬ 
sufficient for the prompt dispatch of the business of the 
day, the Inspector in charge will report the fact to the Sur¬ 
veyor, stating how many additional Inspectors are required; 
whereupon the Surveyor will order from the Barge Office to 
the Debenture Room, for temporary duty, as many Inspec¬ 
tors as may be necessary. 

The Inspector in charge of the Debenture Room is re¬ 
quired to report to the Surveyor on the first day of each 
month, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the total number 
of orders and entries of each description received in the 
Debenture Room during the previous month. He is also 
required to report to the Surveyor any inattention to, or 
neglect of, duty, by, or of, any Inspector or Clerk assigned 
for duty to the Debenture Room. 

III.—RECORD BOOKS TO BE KEPT. 

Every export entry, order for the examination of mer¬ 
chandise, special order for shipment, transfer or other order, 
the delivery of which, or the execution whereof, is to be 
done by a Debenture Inspector, must be entered in the 
proper book of record, according to the form (and with all 
the particulars) prescribed by the Surveyor, by the Clerk 
in charge of such record book, and until the same is so 
recorded, and the necessary directions in relation thereto 
are stamped thereon, the entry, or order, will not be de¬ 
livered for execution. 

IV.—ENTRIES OF MERCHANDISE DELIVERED FROM VESSEL 
OR WAREHOUSE FOR EXPORT. 

Whenever export entries are delivered to a Debenture 
Inspector, he is required, as soon as he is notified by the 


Exporter that the merchandise is ready for delivery, to pro¬ 
ceed to the vessel, or warehouse, where the merchandise 
may be, and receive the same, giving to the Inspector of 
the vessel or Storekeeper, the proper receipt therefor, and 
will then accompany the merchandise, keeping it in sight 
so that it cannot be changed, until it is delivered along¬ 
side of the export vessel, and he will, without delay, deliver 
the export entries to the proper District Officer. 

When export entries of merchandise which is to be 
transferred from one district to another, by lighter, are 
given to a Debenture Insiiector for delivery to the District 
Inspector, such delivery must be made without delay, and, 
if practicable, to the District Inspector personally. 

When a Debenture Inspector has performed the duty re¬ 
quired of him in relation to any entry or order, he will 
return to the Debenture Room without delay, for further 
duty. 

V.—PRELIMINARY ORDERS FOR EXAMINATION, WEIGH¬ 
ING, ETC. 

When an order to examine merchandise which has been 
11 manufactured from merchandise of foreign growth or 
production, and entered for export for benefit of draw¬ 
back,” or an order for 11 the examination of domestic man¬ 
ufactures entered for export under Internal Revenue laws,” 
is delivered to a Debenture Inspector, he is required to 
proceed, without delay, to the place where the said mer¬ 
chandise is deposited, and there to inspect and examine the 
same, and to place upon the packages so inspected and 
examined such distinguishing marks as may be prescribed 
for the proper identification of the packages; and when 
the order for examination requires samples of the mer- 


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chandise to be taken, he will take reasonable samples, 
which samples, after having been by him properly indorsed 
and certified, will be delivered, with the examination order, 
to the Surveyor’s office. 

Whenever the order for, or examination of, any mer¬ 
chandise for export, requires the same to be weighed or 
gauged, an order to the Weigher or Gauger will be issued 
in the prescribed form. 

The Debenture Inspector who executes the order for 
examination will, as soon as possible, deliver the order to 
weigh or gauge to the Weigher or Gauger to whom it is 
directed. 

VI.—SHIPPING MERCHANDISE. 

When entries for the export of any merchandise, ex¬ 
amined as above provided, are made, after the same shall 
have been properly recorded and stamped, they will be 
delivered to the Debenture Inspector who made the pre¬ 
liminary examination, and he is required, as soon as the 
merchandise is ready for shipment, to proceed to the place 
where the same is deposited, and to receive and accompany 
the same to the export vessel, and to superintend the lading 
of the merchandise on board of such vessel. 

Whenever a Debenture Inspector has export entries de¬ 
livered to him for the purpose of supervising the transfer 
of the merchandise described therein, from vessel or ware¬ 
house, to the shipping officer, or of export entries for mer¬ 
chandise, the lading of which he is to superintend, and 
the delivery of the merchandise from vessel or warehouse, 
or other place of deposit, is interrupted or suspended, he 
will return to the Debenture Room and notify the Inspec¬ 
tor in charge of the facts, and when notice is given that 
the delivery of the merchandise will be resumed, the 


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same Debenture Inspector will be directed to complete bis 
duty with respect to such merchandise. 

VII.—CERTIFICATES OF SHIPMENT. 

The entries will be certified by the Debenture Inspector 
under whose supervision the merchandise was laden, in 
the manner hereinbefore provided, and will be returned 
to the Debenture Room. 

Debenture Inspectors must not certify to shipments, 
unless the same were made under their personal super¬ 
vision. 

INSPECTORS FOR MEASUREMENT OF VESSELS. 

I.—VESSELS TO BE MEASURED. 

Every ship or vessel built within the United States, or 
that may be owned by a citizen or citizens thereof, shall 
be measured. (Act May 6, 1864, H. D., p. 440; see also, 
Act December 31, 1792, §§ 6, 21, H. D., pp. 27, 34; Act 
February 18, 1793, § 26, H. D., p. 46 ; Act March 2, 1799, 
$ 64, H. D., p. 106.) 

All vessels upon which tonnage duties are imposed by 
law shall be admeasured. (Collection Act March 2, 1799, 
§ 63, H. D., p. 106.) The tonnage of foreign vessels is to 
be ascertained when necessary for the assessment of tonnage 
tax. (Revised Reg., Part I, p. 74.) 

Foreign vessels will be measured for tonnage on their 
first arrival and entry at this port, except when a vessel 
has been previously admeasursed at another port of the 
United States, and the proper certificate of such admeasure¬ 
ment is produced, which certificate shall be retained, filed, 
and entered in the proper record book. 

As tonnage tax or duties are not collected from French 


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vessels, tliey need not he measured. (Act March 1, 1823, 
H. D., p. 215.) 

British vessels' whose registers indicate their tonnage 
under the present British law, shall he taken in ports of 
the United States to he of the tonnage so expressed in 
their documents, with the addition of the amount of the 
deductions made under the British law not authorized by 
the admeasurement law of the United States. Usually, the 
gross tonnage may he ascertained from the register. In 
such cases, the vessel will he entirely exempt from ad¬ 
measurement. If the gross tonnage is not indicated in 
the register, it may he necessary to measure the spaces ap- 
propiated to crew and to engines helow the upper deck, 
whose tonnage has been deducted under British law. 
(Revised Reg., Part I, Art. 140, p. 74.) 

The Danish government having adopted the English 
system of admeasurement of vessels, the rule applied in 
article 140 of the Revised Regulations of the Treasury will 
he extended to Danish vessels arriving at our ports. 
(Dept. Circular No. 10, June 12, 1889.) 

On request of the master of any foreign vessel, he will 
he furnished with an abstract of the admeasurement of 
his vessel (or a duplicate of the Surveyor’s certificate) in 
the prescribed form, and without any charge therefor. 
(Revised Reg., Part I, Art. 139, p. 74.) 


II.—THE RULES FOR ADMEASUREMENT. 

The rules for the admeasurement of vessels for tonnage 
are found in the Act of May 6, 1864, H. D., p. 440, and Act 
of February 28, 1865, H. D., p. 451. 

The Regulations of the Department with respect to ad¬ 
measurements will he found in Revised Reg., Part I, Chapter 


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V, p. 66. Attention is called to tlie following portions 
thereof, viz.: 

“Art. 131. Questions having arisen under the act of 
February 28, 1865, as to what constitutes a 1 deck to the 
hull ’ it has been determined that any deck is a deck to 
the hull which has a direct bearing upon the frame tim¬ 
bers, even though lighter than other decks in the same 
vessel, and though only a portion of the timbers extend to 
such deck. In iron vessels, an upper deck supported by 
stanchions of wood or iron bolted to the angle irons, or to 
the iron plating of the vessel, is to be taken as a deck to 
the hull. In consequence of the diversity of modes of con¬ 
struction, much in this particular must necessarily be con¬ 
fided to the judgment of the Measuring officer; but in 
case of doubt or dispute, the Department should be con¬ 
sulted. The law above referred to was designed merely to 
exclude cabins and state rooms above the 1 promenade ’ 
deck of the steamers of the seacoast and lakes, or above 
a ‘boiler’ deck as used on the western rivers. It does not 
have the effect to exempt from admeasurement any closed 
in places, even if so situated, if used for cargo or stores. 

“Art. 132. If the second deck from the keel consists 
of several partial decks extending, with breaks, from stem 
to stern, the line of that course of decks must be taken as 
the tonnage deck; and if the partial decks are at different 
heights, the line of the lowest will be taken as tlie tonnage 
deck, and the head room above such line under the higher 
will be measured. 

“Art. 133. By 1 closed-in spaces’ is to be understood 
spaces which are sheltered from the action of the sea and 
weather, even though openings be left in the inclosure. 
Measuring officers will exercise due vigilance that the in- 
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tent of the law in this respect is not evaded. It should he 
borne in mind, however, that no closed-in spaces above the 
upper deck to the hull are to be admeasured unless avail¬ 
able for cargo or stores, or the berthing or accommodation 
of passengers or crew. The engine room, pilot-house, gal¬ 
ley, windlass house, and the like, are, when so situated 
and used, exempt. On the other hand, however, no such 
distinction is admitted beloiv the upper deck to the hull, 
and no deduction there allowed for engine room, boilers, 
or any other purpose.” 

III.—VESSELS ONCE MEASURED NOT TO BE REMEASURED: 

The tonnage of any documented vessel of the United 
States expressed in her marine papers, in pursuance of a 
measurement purporting to be in conformity to this rule, 
can be changed or set aside only by the Department, so 
long as the vessel remains unchanged in form or burden. 
Applications from any quarter for amendment or revision 
in such cases, must be submitted to the Departmeut, with 
precise statements of the errors supposed to exist. (Re¬ 
vised Reg., Part I, Art. 138, p. 74.) 

The consent of the Department is always necessary 
before a vessel can be readmeasured. (Synopsis of Decis¬ 
ions, 1868 (179) p. 54.) 

IV.—AMERICAN VESSELS, HOW DISTINGUISHED. 

The name* of every registered ship or vessel shall be 
painted on her stern, on a black ground in white letters, of 
not less than three inches in length. (Act December 31, 
1792, § 3, H. D., p. 26.) 

Every licensed ship or vessel shall have her name and 
the port to which she belongs painted on her stem in the 


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manner as is provided for registered ships or vessels. 
(Act February 18, 1793, § 11, H. D., p. 40.) 

Iu every registered United States ship or vessel, the 
number denoting the total registered tonnage shall be 
deeply carved or otherwise permanently marked on her 
main beam, and shall be so continued, and if it at any time 
cease to be so continued, such vessel shall be no longer recog¬ 
nized as a registered United States vessel. (Act May 6, 
1864, $ 3, H. D., p. 442.) 

The tonnage must be marked on the face of the beam under 
the forward side of the main hatch of sea-going vessels 
and lake vessels. On river steamers of the coast which 
carry passengers both above and below main deck, 
where there is no hatch to the main deck, the tonnage 
mark should be made on one of the deck beams in a con¬ 
spicuous place, and as near as possible to the middle of the 
vessel. It should be in plain Arabic numerals, thus: 
§25 61-100 not less than three inches high, and not less 
than three-eighths of an inch deep. On vessels whose main 
beam is of wood, it should be carved or branded, and on 
vessels whose main beam is of iron, it should be plainly 
marked in oil paint, white, when the beam is black, and 
black, when the beam is of any light color. (Revised Reg., 
Part I, Art. 136, p. 73.) 

Previous to granting a certificate of registry, enrollment, 
and license, or a clearance to any vessel of the United 
States, her number (if any be given to her in the list fur¬ 
nished by the Bureau of Statistics) must bo deeply carved 
or permanently marked on her main beam in the same 
manner as her tonnage, and indorsed upon the official 
documents relating to her; and if at anytime she shall 
cease to be so marked, such vessel shall be no longer 
recognized as a vessel of the United States. The owner or 


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master of a vessel must affix tlie number at bis owu ex¬ 
pense. (Revised Reg., Part I, Art. 141, p. 75.) 

V.—DUTIES OF THE INSPECTORS FOR MEASUREMENT. 

The Inspectors for Measurement of Vessels are required 
to report at the Surveyor’s Office at nine o’clock a. m., 
daily, and to remain therein during the business hours of 
the day, or until sent out on duty. 

Whenever a vessel is to be admeasured for tonnage, a 
memorandum will be made by the Clerk at the tonnage 
desk, stating the name of the vessel, whether American 
or foreign, to be measured, and also her location, and the 
Inspectors (not less than two) who are designated to 
measure such vessel. 

Upon receipt of such memorandum, the designated 
Inspectors shall forthwith proceed to perform the duty 
required of them. Having completed the measurements 
in the manner provided by law and regulations, and, if 
the vessel is a new American vessel, having examined 
and ascertained that her name is painted on the stern, 
according to law, they will return to the office and make 
the necessary computation, and the same being done, both 
Inspectors will certify the same. The original measure¬ 
ments and computations will be recorded in the proper 
record book, and a certificate of the admeasurement issued 
in the prescribed form. 

When a doubt exists as to whether a foreign vessel 
arriving at this port has been before admeasured, the 
clerk at the tonnage desk will designate an Inspector to 
u call on” the vessel and ascertain and report the facts. 

VI.—EXAMINATION OF PASSENGER VESSELS. 

Two Inspectors for the Measurement of Vessels will be 


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designated by the Surveyor, for the measurement and 
examination of vessels arriving with passengers from 
foreign ports. 

The Inspectors so designated are required, upon the 
arrival of any such vessel, or as soon thereafter as is practi¬ 
cable, to go on board thereof, and to carefully measure all 
the places or spaces in, or upon, which passengers were 
brought. They shall also examine every emigrant ship 
or vessel, aud ascertain the time of sailing, the length of 
the voyage, the ventilation, the number of passengers, 
their space on board, their food, the native country of the 
emigrants, the number of deaths, the age and sex of those 
who died during the voyage, together with their opinion 
of the cause of the mortality, if any, on board, and if none, 
what precautionary measures, arrangements, or habits 
are supposed to have any, and what, agency in causing 
the exemption. (Passenger Act, March 3,1855, p. 368.) 

The measurements of the spaces of every vessel will be 
recorded in the proper books kept in the Surveyor’s Office, 
and be certified by the Inspectors making the same, and 
a detailed report will be made of the examinations of each 
vessel, in the form prescribed, and containing all the 
particulars and information required by law and regula¬ 
tions. 

The reports aforesaid, signed by the examining Inspec¬ 
tors will be made to the Surveyor at the close of each 
month, with a brief abstract of the contents thereof, in 
the prescribed form. 

VII.—SPECIAL REPORTS. 

If it shall appear that any vessel has taken on board, or 
brought, an excess of passengers, a separate report, in the 
form prescribed, will be made and signed by the examin- 


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ing Inspectors, and be delivered to the Surveyor. And 
if it be discovered by the examining Inspectors that any 
provision or provisions of the passenger laws has or have 
been violated, they are required to make a special written 
report thereof to the Surveyor. 

THE MEASURER OF MARBLE. 

The practice existing at some ports of assuming that an 
invoice of marble is correct, is not permissable, such 
article must be actually and carefully measured, so as to 
ascertain the exact quantities landed, whenever duties are 
to be assessed thereon. (Synopsis of Decisions, 1868 (109) 

p. 28.) 

The Measurer of Marble is required to measure all mar¬ 
ble landed at this port from any vessel from a foreign port 
or place, which has been so landed under a duty-paid 
permit, warehouse, special or general order. Having 
measured the marble described in any order or permit, or 
landed as aforesaid, he will keep a correct record thereof, 
and of each block or piece measured, which record or dock 
book shall be indorsed with the name of the vessel from 
which the same was landed, the place from whence im¬ 
ported, and the name of the Importer, and be filed in the 
Surveyor’s Office. The Measurer will also make out two 
returns of the said measurements, and certify to the same; 
one of which will be promptly delivered by him to the 
Duty-paid Liquidating Department, and the other to the 
Warehouse Liquidating Department. 

THE WEIGHERS. 

I.—ASSIGNMENTS. 

The Weighers will each be assigned to duty on a district 
to be designated by the Surveyor. The districts and the 




assignments thereto will he altered or changed whenever 
in the judgment of the Surveyor it may be necessary. 


II. —ATTENDANCE AND DUTIES. 

Each Weigher is required to he at the district to which 
he is assigned whenever weigliable goods are being landed 
thereon from a vessel or vessels discharging cargo from a 
foreign port. He is required to inspect and take copies of 
all permits in the hands of the Inspector of the vessel, 
whenever the Collector has, by underscoring the articles 
named in the permit, directed the said articles to be 
weighed; and the Weigher is required to have and exer¬ 
cise a personal supervision of the weighing of such mer¬ 
chandise. The Weigher will be held responsible for the 
prompt, faithful, and correct performance of the weighing 
done on his district. Weighers must not be absent from 
their respective districts during the ordinary business 
hours of the day, unless necessarily absent on official busi¬ 
ness, or by leave of the Surveyor. Each Weigher should, 
if practicable, call daily at the Surveyor’s Office between 
the hours of twelve o’clock m., and one o’clock p. m. 

The Weighers are required to provide themselves, re¬ 
spectively, with an office, on or convenient to the district 
to which they are respectively assigned, in which to 
deposit their weighing implements when the same are not 
in use. For the rent of such office a reasonable sum will 
be allowed quarterly. Each Weigher will notify the 
Surveyor of the location of his office, and of any change 
thereof. 

III. —weighers’ implements 

Each Weigher is required to furnish the Surveyor, on 
the first day of January and July in each year, with a 


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detailed list of all weighing implements in his possession, 
on those days respectively. He is also required to have 
his weighing implements tested and compared with the 
United States standard, at least twice a year, to wit: on 
or as soon after the first day of January and July, as 
possible; and to have the same tested as often as may be 
necessary to keep the same in conformity with the United 
States standard. 

Whenever new implements are required, or, whenever 
repairs are necessary to the implements in use, the Weigher 
will present to the Surveyor a requisition in duplicate, 
stating therein what is required. No expense for new 
implements, or for repairs t o implements, will be incurred 
by any Weigher until his requisition therefor has been 
approved by the Surveyor. 

When the bills for new implements, or for repairs to im¬ 
plements, are rendered to the Weigher who made the 
requisition therefor, he is required to examine and satisfy 
himself that the work has been properly performed, and 
that the charges made therefor are reasonable and just, 
and then, and not otherwise, he will certify, under his 
signature, that the bill is correct. 

The Weighers will be held responsible for the safe 
keeping of the implements delivered to them respectively. 

IV.—DOCK BOOK AND RETURNS. 

The Weighers will be furnished by the Surveyor with 
proper blank books, known as u Dock Books,” in which the 
Weigher shall daily make a true and correct entry of 
goods weighed by him, specifying the date the same was 
performed. These dock books must be kept in such man¬ 
ner that they will, when completed, contain all the speci¬ 
fications necessary to a perfect account of the merchandise 


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weighed. The Weigher should first copy the Permit or 
Order in the dock book, and then proceed, in all cases 
where the merchandise is required to he weighed by num¬ 
bers, to enter the number and weight of each separate 
package weighed by him. When it can be done, the 
numbers should be stated in their order, from lowest to 
highest; in other cases, the weights will be entered as 
they are weighed. The Weigher must add up the weights 
stated in each column of his dock book, and give the gross 
weight, the tare, and the net weight of each lot (i. e., of a 
number of packages of same mark) as returned by him, 
and at the end of all the entries the total gross weights 
and tares must be recapitulated. The dock book must be 
indorsed on the outside with the name of the vessel, the 
date the return is filed in the Surveyor’s Office, and the 
Weigher’s signature. 

In order to facilitate the prompt liquidation of duties, 
Weighers are required to make a Special Return of the 
weight of the articles embraced in each permit or order, 
as soon as the same shall have been ascertained. 

Special Returns of duty-paid goods will be made to the 
Liquidating Office, and of Warehouse goods to the Ware¬ 
house Department of the Collector’s Office. 

A General Return of the whole cargo will be made to 
the Naval Officer. 

The proper returns having been made, the Weigher will 
procure the checks of the Clerks receiving the same to be 
made in the dock book, and the said dock book must be 
filed within three days after the vessel is discharged, in 
the Surveyor’s Office, as a public record, and to enable the 
Clerks to keep the accounts of the Weighers. 

Separate books' will be kept for the cargo of every vessel. 


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V.—WEIGHT AND TAKE. 

Before weighing any merchandise the Weigher must 
see that the beam is accurately balanced, and that the 
proper poise, to be used agrees with the United States 
standard. As accuracy m weighing depends very much 
upon the accuracy of the poise they should always be kept 
clean, and be frequently tested with, and adjusted to, the 
standard. 

A fairly even beam is weight , but as, in weighing mer¬ 
chandise, it seldom happens that the beam will stand at 
an exact poise, but will go either above or below an “ even 
beam,” the weight will be taken on the “rising beam.” 

In estimating the allowance for tare on all chests, boxes, 
cases, casks, bags, or other envelope or covering, of all 
articles imported liable to pay any duty, where the origi¬ 
nal invoice is jnoduced at the time of making entry thereof, 
and the tare shall be specified therein, it shall be lawful 
for the Collector, if he shall see fit, or for the Collector 
and Naval Officer, if such officer there be, if they shall see 
fit, with the consent of the consignees, to estimate the 
said tare according to such invoice; but in all other cases 
the real taro shall be allowed, and may be ascertained 
under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury 
may from time to time prescribe, but in no case shall there 
be any allowance for draft. (Act. 14, July 1862, § 16, 
H. D., p. 419.) 

The execution of the foregoing provision will be gov¬ 
erned by the following regulations: 

In all cases where the original invoice is produced at the 
time of making the entry thereof, with the tare specified 
therein, the Collector, or Collector and Naval Officer, if 
such officer there be, may, in his or their discretion, and 


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with the consent of the consignees, estimate the tare 
according to the invoice; otherwise the real tare is to he 
allowed. The Schedule of Tares annexed is the tare to he 
allowed in all cases where the invoice tare is not adopted 
as hereinbefore prescribed : Provided , That the Collector 
shall have the right at any time to test the tare on any 
importation where, in his opinion, thereal tare may vary 
from the tare in the Schedule annexed. Should any con¬ 
signee or importer enter a protest in due form of law against 
the enforcement of any one or more of the tares as herein 
set forth, the Collector will in all such cases adopt the 
real tare, to he ascertained in the usual manner. (Dept. 
Circular, January 24th, 1863.) 

Whenever the Weigher has reason to believe that the 
schedule tare of any merchandise is greater than the real 
tare, he is authorized and required to ascertain the actual 
tare. 

Whenever the Weigher finds it necessary, or is required 
to ascertain actual tare, as many casks, boxes, or other 
envelopes as may be necessary for that purpose will be 
emptied and accurately weighed. Actual tare will be 
ascertained and returned separately on ullaged or damaged 
sugar. 

The Weighers are required to note in their Returns, at 
the head of the column of tares, whenever the tare re¬ 
turned by them is “ actual tare.” 

VI.—EXTRA WEIGHT. 

The Weighers are not authorized to make any allow¬ 
ance for an increase of weight or quantity caused by the 
article contracting moisture on the voyage of importation, 
but the actual weight, as ascertained after landing, must 
be returned. (Gen. Reg., § 378.) But this refers only to 


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the moisture contracted as one of the ordinary incidents 
of the voyage of importation and not to cases of accidental 
and unusual leakage and shipment of water. (Dept. 
Circular, October 28, 1868, Dis. 144.) 

No allowance in the exceptional cases above referred to 
will he made until the facts have been fully stated by the 
"Weigher to the Surveyor, and his permission for such 
allowance obtained; and the quantity allowed must be 
separately stated in the return. 


VII.—AMENDING RETURNS. 

When a return has been once made by the Weigher, it 
must not be amended or changed, except by application 
to, and by permission of, the Surveyor. The amended 
return must state why the amendment is made, and be 
checked or signed by the Weigher before it is presented 
to the Surveyor for his approval. 

When an amendment to the Return is allowed, the 
Weigher must correct his dock book in accordance with 
his amended return. 

VIII—WEIGHING AND RETURNING BY NUMBERS. 

All articles required to be weighed separately, under 
Warehouse Permits and General Order, shall be weighed 
and returned by numbers; and in case there are on 
numbers on such casks or packages when landed, it 
shall be the duty of the Weigher to number the same 
from 1 to-, either at or before the time of determin¬ 

ing the quantity, and to make return by such numbers. 
These numbers must be put on with proper marking 
liquid, not chalk. 

Sugar in hogsheads', tierces, or boxes, need not be num¬ 
bered in absence of original numbers; if found numbered 



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and permitted by numbers, must be weighed and returned 
by such numbers. The weight to be marked in a distinct 
and durable manner, upon the end of the cask or package. 

Tobacco in bales, cases, or ceroons, to be weighed 
separately, and returned by numbers, and in absence of 
numbers to be numbered. 

In case the numbers are defaced from part of a lot of 
goods required to be weighed by numbers, the new num¬ 
bers put on in the place of those defaced should be such 
as to avoid duplicate numbers of same mark. In such 
cases higher numbers should be put on than those speci¬ 
fied in the Permit, and be returned as Weigher’s numbers. 

All articles weighed, either under Warehouse Order, 
Duty-paid Permit, or General Order, if of such size or kind 
as to be weighed separately, must have the letters uWs 
with the initials of the Weigher’s name underneath, and 
the weight marked on the same, as above directed. 

In all cases where numbers are put on packages by the 
Weigher, it must be stated in the return that they are 
u Weigher’s numbers.” 

It is not intended by these instructions to increase the 
labor and exj>ense of weighing beyond wliat is essentially 
necessary to guard the revenue, and have return of weight 
by marks and numbers, so as to facilitate business depend¬ 
ent upon such return. It is expected that the Weighers 
will exercise, in the discharge of their duties, a sound 
judgment and proper discretion, so that in case packages 
of same mark, weighed under Warehouse Permit or Gen¬ 
eral Order, vary materially from each other in size and 
weight, that the same will be weighed and returned sep¬ 
arately, by the numbers found on same, and in the absence 
of numbers, that numbers shall be put on, and the weight of 
each package returned by such numbers, as well for the 


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purpose of guarding the revenue against loss, in cases 
where exportation of a part of the whole number of pack¬ 
ages at average weight would produce that effect, as to 
furnish by their return information necessary for the 
transaction of the warehouse business. 

IX.—COAL AND SALT. 

Coal and Salt will be landed under the supervision of 
the Inspector of the vessel in tubs provided by the Sur¬ 
veyor. If the Inspector of the vessel cannot personally 
take account of the coal or salt delivered, the Weigher is 
required to designate a competent man to keep the tally 
under the supervision of the Inspector. 

Coal tubs contain, when even full, three heaped bushels, 
equivalent to three and three-quarters struck bushels. 
Salt tubs hold two struck bushels. 

At least one in every fifty tubs delivered must be ac¬ 
curately weighed, and when such tubs are weighed care 
must be taken to have them filled as nearly even full as 
possible. The Inspector will be instructed to see that 
uniformity is preserved in delivering the coal or salt. 

As soon as the merchandise is all landed, the Weigher will 
procure from the Inspector a statement of the number of 
the sacks, bags, or tubs delivered, and having satisfied 
himself that the number so returned by the Inspector is 
correct, will make up his return according to the average 
ascertained by his weights. The return of coal must show 
the number of bushels delivered, the average weight per 
bushel, and the gross weight reduced to tons, cwt., qrs., 
and pounds. The return of salt must state the number of 
measured bushels, the actual average weight per bushel, 
and the gross weight, and tare, (if any), in pounds. His 
return must be made in triplicate, one copy thereof to be 


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delivered to tlie Collector’s Office, one to the Naval Office, 
and one to the Surveyor’s Office. 

X.—RAILROAD IRON. 

From every invoice of Railroad Iron a sufficient number 
of bars (of equal length) will be weighed in order to ascer¬ 
tain the average weight thereof, the whole number of bars 
to be counted, and returns of the weight of such iron must 
be made as of other weighable merchandise. 

Railroad Iron withdrawn for export will be weighed 
and returned in like manner, and the fees of three cents 
per hundred pounds collected as for other weighable mer¬ 
chandise. (Department Letter to Collector, June 7,1869.] 

xi. —GRAINS. 

For the purpose of estimating the duties on importations 
of grain, the number of bushels shall be ascertained by 
weight; and 60 pounds of wheat, 56 pounds of corn, 56 
Xiounds of rye, 48 pounds of barley, 32 pounds of oats, 60 
pounds of peas, and 42 pounds of buckwheat, avoirduxiois 
weight, shall respectively be estimated as a bushel. (Act 
July 18, 1866, $ 38, H. D., p. 485.) 

XII.—SPECIAL ORDERS AND EXPORTS. 

Whenever a Permit or Order directs the weighing of 
goods, and a special return therefor, the Weigher will 
weigh the goods designated, and make a return sex>arate 
and distinct from any other, without delay. 

Goods ordered to be weighed in any xmblic store or ware¬ 
house for export or transx>ortation, must be weighed by the 
Weigher in whose district the store or warehouse is located, 
and the weighing and making of the return must be done 
promptly. 


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If tlie merchandise has been shipped before the order to 
‘weigh is received by the Weigher, he will indorse the 
facts on the back of the order, and return it to the Sur¬ 
veyor. 

The Weigher within whose district the Public Store is 
included, must visit that store every day between twelve 
and one o’clock, to weigh whatever merchandise is ready. 

XIII.—WHEN EXPENSES OF WEIGHING ARE PAID BY 
IMPORTER. 

In all cases where the invoice and entry shall not contain 
the weight, quantity, or measure of goods, or where any 
good reason shall exist for the belief that the quantity 
was designedly misstated in the invoice, with the intention 
of evading the proper amount of duty, then in all such 
cases the expeuse of weighing, gauging, and measuring, 
must be defrayed by the owner, agent, or consignee. 

When goods are withdrawn from warehouse in quanti¬ 
ties less than the entire importation, the expense of weigh¬ 
ing, gauging, and measuring, must be paid by the importer, 
if it be necessary to ascertain dutiable value. 

When imports are to be weighed, gauged, or measured 
at the expense of the importer, the particular article on 
the permit to land will be double underscored. In all such 
cases the officer will state in his return the fees allowed 
by law for ascertaining quantity, &c. 

XIV.—LABOR ROLLS AND PAY TICKETS. 

The Weighers will keep faithful and exact accounts of 
the laborers employed by them in the performance of their 
official duty; and a pay roll, in duplicate, in the form 
prescribed, will be made up weekly and presented to the 
Surveyor for approval. These pay rolls must be receipted 


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by each person employed, in liis own handwriting, and 
when unable to write, the laborer will make his mark, 
which must be witnessed at the foot of the roll by some 
person other than the Weigher. 

At the time the rolls are signed by the persons employed, 
the Weigher employing them will furnish to each a cer¬ 
tificate, or pay ticket, according to the form perscribed. 
The tickets will be presented by the laborer in person to 
the Paymaster, and the amount stated therein (if agreeing 
with the pay roll) will be paid by him, directly to the 
person named therein. (Gen. Reg., 1857, art. 59, p. 325.) 

The labor rolls will be made up to, and including, Thurs¬ 
day of each week, and must be delivered to the Auditor of 
the Surveyor’s Office on Friday morning before eleven 
o’clock. 

ISP The special attention of the Weighers is directed to 
the necessity of giving to their expenditures for labor, a 
personal and careful supervision. No more laborers than 
are absolutely necessary to enable the Weighers to perform 
their official duties will be employed, and the pay roll 
must show the exact time each laborer was employed, and 
the precise sum due him for such labor. 


XV.—PENALTIES. 

If any Weigher shall receive any gratuity, fee, or reward 
for any services performed by virtue of this Act other than 
is by law allowed, or if any Weigher shall weigh any 
article or articles other than shall be directed by the 
proper officer, in order to ascertain the duties to be re¬ 
ceived, or the drawbacks to be allowed thereon, or shall 
make a return of the weight of any merchandise laden, or 
to be laden, on board any ship or vessel, for the benefit of 
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drawback upon exportation, without having acutally 
weighed the same, he shall, for the first offense, forfeit and 
pay the sum of fifty dollars, and for the second offense 
shall forfeit two hundred dollars, and be discharged from 
the public service. (Act March 3,1799, § 73, H. D., p. 110.) 

If any Officer of the Revenue shall, by collusion with 
Any importer or other person, or by means of any false 
weight, or measure, or of any false classification as to 
quality or value of any goods, wares, or merchandise, 
or by any other means whatever, knowingly admit or aid 
in admitting to entry, any such goods, wares, or mer¬ 
chandise, upon the payment of less than the amount of 
duty legally due thereon, or shall knowingly accept from 
any person engaged in the importation of goods, wares, 
or merchandise into the United States, or interested as 
principal, clerk, or agent in any such importation, or in 
the entry of any goods, wares, or merchandise, any fee, 
gratuity, or emolument whatsoever, such Officer shall, on 
conviction thereof, be removed from office, and shall be 
fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, or 
be imprisoned not exceeding two years, at the discretion 
of the court. (Act March 4, 1863, § 4, H. D., p. 427.) 


XVI.—ABSENCE, ETC. 

Weighers must not absent themselves from their district 
nor leave the city without obtaining the consent of the 
Surveyor. Whenever, by reason of sickness or other 
cause, a Weigher is unable to perform his duties, the Sur¬ 
veyor must be immediately notified of such fact, and 
another Weigher will be designated to perform his duties 
for the time being. 


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XVII.—SCHEDULE OF TARES. 

(See Revised Reg. 1869, Part IV, art. 205, p. 71.) 

Almonds: Bales, 2£ per cent.; bags, 2per cent.; frails 8 
per cent. 

Alum: Casks, 10 per cent. 

Barytes: 3 per cent. 

Cheese: Casks or tubs, 10 per cent. 

Cassia : Mats, 9 per cent. 

Coffee, Rio: Single bags, 1 pound; double bags, 2 pounds. 
All other coffee, actual tare. 

Cinnamon: Bales, 6 per cent. 

Cocoa: Bags, 2 per cent; ceroons, 8 per cent. 

Chickory: Bags, 2 per cent. 

Copperas: Casks, 10 per cent. 

Currants: Casks, 10 per cent. 

Hemps: Manilla, 4 pounds to each bale ; Hamburg, Leg¬ 
horn, Trieste, 5 pounds each bale. 

Indigo : Ceroons, 10 per cent. 

Melado: 11 per cent. 

Nails: Bags, 2 per cent.; casks, 8 per cent. 

Oclire: Dry, in casks, 8 per cent.; in oil, casks, 12 per 
cent. 

Peruvian Bark: Ceroons, 10 per cent. 

Paris White: Casks, 10 per cent. 

Pepper: Bags 2 per cent.; double bags, 4 per cent. 

Pimento: Bags, 2 per cent. 

* Raisins: Boxes, 25 per cent.; boxes, 27 per cent.; i 
boxes, 29 per cent.; frails, 4 per cent.; casks, 12 per cent. 

Rice: Bags, 2 per cent. 

Spanish Brown: In casks, dry, 10 per cent.; casks, in 
oil, 12 per cent. 

Sugar: Hogsheads, 12^ per cent.; tierces, 12 per cent. ; 
barrels, 10 per cent.; boxes, 14 per cent.; bags, 2 per 
cent.; mats, 2^.per cent. 

Salt: Fine, in sacks, 3 pounds for each sack ; coarse, or 
ground alum, 2 pounds each. 


* The actual tare of raisins must be in all cases ascertained and returned. 
(Collector’s order dated November 1st, 1869.) 



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Teas: Actual tare by weight. 

Tobacco : Leaf, in bales, tare 10 pounds each bale; bales 
with extra covers, 12 pounds each. 

Whiting: Casks, 10 per cent. 

Nitrate of Soda: Bags, 2 per cent. 

Sheet Iron in Bundles: Weight of bands allowed. 

Wool — Jute—Gunny Bags: Actual weight of outside cov¬ 
ering. 


THE GAUGERS. 


I.—ASSIGNMENTS. 

The Gaugers will each be assigned to duty on a district 
to be designated by the Surveyor. The districts and the 
assignments thereto will be altered or changed whenever 
in the judgment of the Surveyor it may be necessary. 


II.—ATTENDANCE AND DUTIES. 

Each Gauger is required to be at the district to which he 
is assigned whenever gaugeable goods are being landed 
thereon from a vessel or vessels discharging caigo from a 
foreign port. He is required to inspect and take copies of 
all permits in the hands of the Inspector of the vessel 
whenever the Collector has, by underscoring the articles 
named in the permit, directed the said articles to be 
gauged; and the Gauger is required to personally perform 
the gauging, and for the correctness of which he will be 
held personally responsible. 

Gaugers must not be absent from their respective dis¬ 
tricts during the ordinary business hours of the day, unless 
necessarily absent on official business, or by leave of the 
Surveyor. Each Gauger should, if practicable, call daily 
at the Surveyor’s Office between the hours of twelve o’clock 
m. and one o’clock p. m. 


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The Gangers are required to provide themselves respect¬ 
ively with au office, on or convenient to the district to 
which they are respectively assigned, in which to deposit 
their gauging instruments when the same are not in use. 
For the rent of such office, a reasonable sum will he al¬ 
lowed quarterly. Each Gauger will notify the Surveyor 
of the location of his office, and of any change thereof. 

III.—GAUGING INSTRUMENTS. 

Each Gauger is required to furnish the Surveyor, on the 
first day of January and July in each year, with a com¬ 
plete and detailed list of all gauging instruments in his 
possession on those days respectively. He is also required 
to have his instruments tested and compared with the 
United States standard at least twice a year, to wit: on or 
as soon after the first day of January and July as pos¬ 
sible, and as often as may be necessary to keep the 
same in conformity with the United States standard. 

Whenever new instruments are required, or whenever 
repairs are necessary to the instruments in use, the Gauger 
will present to the Surveyor a requisition in duplicate, 
stating therein what is required. No expense for new 
instruments or for repairs to instruments will be incurred 
until the Gauger’s requisition therefor has been approved 
by the Surveyer. 

The Gaugers will be held responsible for the safe keep¬ 
ing of the instruments delivered to them respectively. 

IV.—GAUGING. 

The instruments to be used for gauging purposes shall 
be those known as the Calliper’s and Gunter’s scale, or the 
sliding scale; a marking or scoring iron must also be used 
for the purpose of marking or scoring the capacity and 


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outs. On all casks exceeding the capacity of fifty gallons, 
no fractional gallons shall be marked ; and on all casks of 
fifty gallons or less (molasses excepted) the fractional one- 
half (-£■) only shall be used, as 1, 1|, 2,2£, &c. (Gen. Reg., 
1857, Art. 633, p. 350.) 

Linseed oil, as well in order to the assessment of duties 
as for statistical purposes, must be gauged. (Gen. Reg., 
1857, Art. 634, p. 350.) 

Gaugers will carefully examine the bung staves of casks 
containing distilled spirits or other gaugable merchan¬ 
dise, and when the bung stave is perceptibly thicker than 
the other staves, or when casks are of such form that the 
true capacity thereof cannot be accurately determined by 
the instruments, the capacity of such casks shall be deter¬ 
mined by actual measurement with the standard measures, 

V.—DOCK BOOKS AND RETURNS. 

The Gaugers will be furnished by the Surveyor with 
proper blank books, known as “Dock Books,” in which 
the Gauger shall daily make a true and correct entry of 
the merchandise gauged by him, specifying the date the 
same was performed. These dock books must be kept 
in such manner that they will, when completed, con¬ 
tain all the specifications necessary to a perfect account 
of the merchandise gauged. The Gauger should first 
copy the Pemit or Order in the dock book, and then pro¬ 
ceed, in all cases where the merchandise is required to be 
gauged by numbers, to enter the number and the capacity 
and outs of each separate package gauged by him. When 
it can be done, the numbers should be stated in their order, 
from lowest to highest; in other cases they will be entered 
as they are gauged. The Gauger must add up each 
column of his dock book, and give the gross capacity and 


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outs and the net gauge of each lot (i. e., of a number of 
packages of same mark), as returned by him. At the end 
of all the entries the total gross capacities and outs must he 
recapitulated. The dock book must he indorsed on the 
outside with the name of the vessel, the date of filing it in 
the Surveyor’s Office, and the Gauger’s signature. 

In order to facilitate the prompt liquidation of duties, 
Gaugers are required to make a Special Return of the 
quantity in detail of the articles embraced in each permit 
or order as soon as the same shall have been ascertained. 

Special Returns of duty-paid merchandise will be made 
to the Liquidating Office, and of warehoused merchandise 
to the Warehouse Department of the Collector’s Office. 

A General Return of the whole cargo will be made to 
the Naval Officer. 

The proper returns having been made, the Gauger will 
procure the checks of the Clerks receiving the same to be 
made in the dock book, and the said dock book must be 
filed within three days after the vessel is discharged in the 
Surveyor’s Office as a public record, and to enable the 
Clerks to keep the accounts of the Gaugers. 

Separate books will be kept for the cargo of every 
vessel. 

VI.—AMENDING RETURNS. 

When a return has been once made by the Gauger, it 
must not be amended or changed, except by application 
to, and by permission of, the Surveyor. The amended 
return must show the fact of the amendment and be 
checked or signed by the Gauger before it is presented to 
the Surveyor for his approval. 

When an amendment to the Return is allowed, the Gau¬ 
ger must correct his dock book in accordance with his 
amended return. 


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VII.—GAUGING AND RETURNING BY NUMBERS. 

All articles required to be gauged separately under Ware¬ 
house Permits and General Order, shall be gauged and 
returned by numbers; and in case there are no numbers 
on such casks or packages when landed, that it shall be 
the duty of the Gauger to number the same from 1 to —, 
either at or before the time of determining the quantity, 
and to make return by such numbers. These numbers 
must be put on with proper marking liquid, not chalk. 

The directions in respect to numbering casks when lan¬ 
ded without numbers are not intended to apply to such as 
contain either molasses or wines known as u white” or 
“red” in casks of uniform size. In case of material differ¬ 
ence in the capacity of casks of the same mark, they must 
be numbered. 

In case the numbers are defaced from part of a lot of 
goods required to be gauged by numbers, the new numbers 
put on in the place of those defaced should be such as to 
avoid duplicate numbers of same mark. In such cases 
higher numbers should be put on than those specified in 
the Permit and be returned as Gauger’s numbers. 

VIII.—SPECIAL ORDERS AND EXPORTS. 

Whenever a Permit or Order directs the gauging of mer¬ 
chandise and a special return therefor, the Gauger will 
gauge the merchandise designated, and make a return 
separate and distinct from any other, without delay. 

Merchandise ordered to be gauged in Public Store or 
Warehouse for export or transportation, must be gauged 
by the Gauger in whose district the store or warehouse is 
located, and the gauging and making of the return must 
be done promptly. The Gauger within whose district the 


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Public Store is included, must visit that store every day 
between twelve and one o’clock to gauge whatever mer¬ 
chandise is ready. 

IX.—LABOR AND PAY ROLLS. 

The Gaugers Avill keep faithful and exact accounts of the 
laborers employed by them in the performance of their 
official duty, and a pay-roll, in duplicate, in the form pre¬ 
scribed, will be made up monthly, and presented to the 
Surveyor for approval. These pay-rolls must be receipted 
by each person employed, in his own handwriting, and 
when unable to write, the laborer will make his mark, 
wdiich must be witnessed at the foot of the roll by some 
person other than the Gauger. 

The special attention of the Gaugers is directed to 
the necessity of giving to their expenditures for labor a 
personal and careful supervision. No more laborers than 
are absolutely necessary to enable the Gaugers to perform 
their official duties will be employed, and the pay-roll must 
show the exact time each laborer was employed, and the 
precise sum due him for such labor. 


X.—PENALTIES. 


If any Gauger shall receive any gratuity, fee, or reward 
for any services performed by virtue of this act other than 
is by law allowed, or if any Gauger shall gauge any arti¬ 
cle or articles other than shall be directed by the proper 
officer, in order to ascertain the duties to be received, or 
the drawbacks to be allowed thereon, or shall make a return 
of the gauge of any merchandise laden or to be laden on 


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board any ship or vessel for the benefit of drawback upon 
exportation, without having actually gauged the same, he 
shall for the first offense forfeit and pay the sum of fifty 
dollars, and for the second offense shall forfeit two hundred 
dollars, and be discharged from the public service. (Act 
March 3, 1799, § 73, H. D., p. 110.) 

If any Officer of the Revenue shall, by collusion with 
any importer, or other person, or by means of any false 
weight or measure, or of any false classification as to 
quality or value of any goods, urares, or merchandise, or 
by any other means whatever, knowingly admit or aid in 
admitting to entry, any such goods, wares, or merchandise 
upon the payment of less than the amount of duty legally 
due thereon, or shall knowingly accept from any person 
engaged in the importation of goods, wares, or merchan¬ 
dise into the United States, or interested as principal, clerk, 
or agent in any such importation, or in the entry of any 
goods, wares, or merchandise, any fee, gratuity, or emolu¬ 
ment whatsoever, such officer shall, on conviction thereof, 
be removed from office, and shall be fined in any sum not 
exceeding five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not ex¬ 
ceeding two years, at the discretion of the court. (Act 
March 3, 1863, $ 4, H. D., p. 427.) 


XI.—ABSENCE, ETC. 

Gaugers must not absent themselves from their district, 
nor leave the city without obtaining the consent of the 
Surveyor. Whenever, by reason of sickness or other cause, 
a Gauger is unable to perform his duties, the Surveyor 
must be immediately notified of such fact, and another 
Gauger will be designated to perform his duties for the 
time being. 


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THE MARKER OF DISTILLED SPIRITS. 

The Officers of Inspection at any port where distilled 
spirits shall he landed, shall, upon the landing thereof, and 
as soon as the casks or cases containing the same shall 
he inspected, gauged, or measured, brand, or otherwise 
mark in durable characters, the several casks and cases of 
spirits containing the same, and the said marks shall 
express the number of casks or cases, of spirits marked by 
each officer, respectively, in each year, in progressive num¬ 
bers ; also, the port of importation, the name of the vessel, 
and the surname of the master; also each kind of spirits, 
the number of gallons in each cask or case, the rate of 
proof of each; also, the name of the Surveyor of the Port, 
and the date of importation, of all which particulars the 
officers of inspection shall keep full and correct accounts, 
in books to be provided for that purpose. (Act March 2, 
1799, § 39, p. 89.) 

The marking of spirits will be performed by one of the 
Inspectors, specially deputed by the Surveyor of the port 
for the purpose. (Department Circular, March 28, 1850.) 

The Inspector designated by the Surveyor as the Marker 
of Distilled Spirits, is required to attend with his assistants 
whenever distilled sjurits are landed from any vessel, and 
as soon as the several casks or packages thereof are gauged, 
to ascertain the proof, and to mark the same in the manner 
required by law. 

The marking of casks or packages will be done by means 
of a stencil plate, except that the gallons and outs, the 
proof, and the “ Revenue, number” will be put on with a 
brush. 

The proof will be ascertained by the standard alcohol- 
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therewith, “Bache’s tables,” approved by the Department. 

When distilled spirits are imported in casks, or other 
vessels of less than thirty gallons capacity, but imported 
in packages so as to conform to the requirements of law 
the package, and also each inside cask, or other vessel, may 
be plated. (Department Letter, December 24, 1869.) 

The law requires that the casks marked during the year 
shall be numbered progressively. The Marker is, there¬ 
fore, required, at the beginning of each year, to commence 
with the Revenue number 1, and to mark the numbers 
progressively, commencing each lot by any vessel, and those 
of different vessels, with the number following the last 
cask or package of the previous lot, or of the vessel. All 
packages marked on the East River will be numbered with 
odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, &c., and those on the North River 
with even numbers, 2, 4, 6, &c. 

The Inspector is required to keep for each vessel a dock 
book, in which shall first be copied the permits, or orders, 
for landing distilled spirits from the vessel; and the Reve¬ 
nue number, capacity, outs, and proof of each cask or 
package shall be entered in detail. 

All packages sent under general order shall be noted. 
When the book of any vessel is complete, it shall be certi¬ 
fied by the Inspector and filed in the Surveyor’s office as 
an official record. 

No greater quantity of spirits shall be taken from any 
cask or package than is necessary to fill the proof glass, 
and the proof having been ascertained, the spirits so taken 
shall be returned to the cask or package. 

Whenever it is practicable the marking of spirits shall 
be done as soon as the same have been gauged, and the 
Gaugers are required to give the Marker all necessary 


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information and assistance to enable him to perform bis 
duty. 

The pay-roll of the Marker for his assistants and labor¬ 
ers will be made up monthly in the form prescribed. 

THE NIGHT WATCH. 

I.—THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. 

It shall be the duty of the Captain to be at the Barge 
Office, daily, an hour before sunset; to have the general 
charge and supervision of the Lieutenants and of the Night 
Inspectors; to instruct Night Inspectors as to their duty ; 
to promulgate and enforce all orders of the Surveyor in 
relation to the Night Watch; to direct the manner of 
assigning the Night Inspectors to duty, and when any 
Night Insjiector is reported by a Lieutenant or Roundsman 
for any reason, to investigate the case, and to transmit 
the report, with his opinion indorsed thereon, to the Sur¬ 
veyor ; to make report to the Surveyor of any misconduct, 
negligence, or disobedience of orders by any Night In¬ 
spector which may come to his knowledge; and when a 
Night Inspector is reported sick to make personal inquiry 
as to the facts of the case, and to make report thereof to 
the Surveyor; and every night to personally visit as many 
of the charges and stations of the Night Inspectors as is 
practicable, and to report any dereliction of duty observed 

by him. 

II.—THE LIEUTENANTS OF THE WATCH. 

It shall be the duty of the two Lieutenants to be alter¬ 
nately (one every other day) at the Barge Office, an hour 
before sunset, to supervise the signing of the roll by the 
Night Inspectors as they report for duty; to assign to 


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duty those who are present, to the respective stations and 
charges ; to make out a list of charges for the Roundsmen 
of each Watch; to note and report to the Captain those 
Night Inspectors who report late, or who are absent from 
duty, and to obey such orders and perform such duties as 
may be required of them by the Captain of the Night 
Watch. The Lieutenant in charge shall remain on duty 
at the Barge Office until sunrise, and should any vessel 
arrive during the night, or any call be made for a Night 
Inspector or Inspectors, he will make the necessary assign¬ 
ment of a Night Inspector or Inspectors thereto. 

The Report of each night, showing the station or charge 
to which each Night Inspector reporting for duty was 
assigned, and also showing those who were late, absent, 
sick, &c., having been first signed by the Captain and the 
Lieutenant on duty, shall be delivered to the Boarding 
Officer, to be transmitted to the Surveyor. 

III.—THE NIGHT INSPECTORS. 

The Night Inspectors shall be divided into two watches, 
as nearly equal as possible, both watches to perform duty 
every night. 

The Night Insx>ectors of the first watch will report for 
duty to the Lieutenant in charge, half an hour before sun¬ 
set, when the sun sets before six o’clock p. m., and one 
hour before sunset when the sun sets after six o’clock p. 
m., and will sign the roll in the order in which they report. 
The first watch will go on duty as soon as assigned, and 
will leave the Barge Office in time to be at their charge at 
sunset, and will remain on duty until properly relieved. 

The Night Inspectors of the second watch will report 
for duty at eleven o’clock p. m., and will sign the roll in 
the order in which they report. The second watch will 


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relieve the first watch as soon as possible after being 
assigned, and will remain on duty until sunrise, and until 
relieved by the Day Inspectors. 

Whenever it is necessary to assign a Night Inspector to 
a vessel in the stream, or to any other “ all night ” charge, 
the Night Inspector so assigned must remain on the vessel, 
or on his charge, until relieved at or after sunrise, and he 
will be excused from performing any duty the following 
night. 

Night Inspectors must not quit their charge, on being 
relieved, without first making their presence personally 
known to the officer relieving them. 

Night Inspectors, when on duty, must wear their official 
badge. 


IV.—DETAILS FOR DUTY. 

There shall be, each night, designated and assigned for 
duty from each watch— 

Two Night Inspectors to every steamship from a foreign 
port, while she remains in port. 

Six Night Inspectors to the Atlantic Dock. 

Two Night Inspectors to the Public Store in Jersey 
City. 

Two Night Inspectors to the Public Store in Hoboken. 

Four Night Inspectors as Roundsmen. 

As many Night Inspectors as can be spared, as District 
Officers or Patrolmen. 

Two Night Insxiectors to any pier or place where notice 
has been given that bonded nerchandise is deposited ; and 
a Night Inspector or Inspectors to such vessels as may 
arrive during the night, and to such other charges or 
stations as may be necessary. 


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V.—DUTIES OF NIGHT INSPECTORS. 

Tko Roundsmen are required to visit during the night 
the various charges to which Night Inspectors are assigned, 
to see that such officers are properly performing their duty; 
and if any are found absent, off their charge, or neglecting 
or inefficiently performing their duty, or guilty of any 
violation of orders, to report the facts, in writing, to the 
Captain of the Watch. The Roundsmen will note upon the 
list of charges furnished to them by the Lieutenant, the 
names of the Night Officers whom they find on the charges, 
respectively, and the hour of the night when the charge 
was visited by them. 

The District Officers or Patrolmen are required to traverse 
the streets at the head of the wharves, within such limits 
as the Captain may prescribe to each, and to visit each 
wharf within their district as often as practicable during 
his hours of duty, to see that nothing is being landed from 
any vessel thereon, and to arrest any person whom they 
have reasonable cause to suspect are engaged in smug¬ 
gling. 

Night Inspectors are appointed for the purpose of pre¬ 
venting smuggling. They are required to keep a vigilant 
watch over the vessels, stores, or merchandise whose 
custody is committed to them, in order to prevent the land¬ 
ing, between sunset and sunrise, of any merchandise from 
any vessel, unless the same is done by proper authority 
and under the supervision of a Day Inspector, and to pro¬ 
tect the stores and merchandise from robbery or the un¬ 
lawful removal of the merchandise therefrom, or from any 
wharf or place on which the same may be deposited. 

Whenever cargo is being discharged from any vessel at 
night under the supervision of a Day Inspector, the Night 


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Inspector assigned to sucli vessel is authorized to demand 
to see, and the Day Inspector is required to exhibit, the 
night permit for the working of the vessel. 

They are required to stop any person or persons who 
may leave the vessel, store, or warehouse in their custody 
in the night time, and if they have reasonable cause to 
suspect that such person or persons are attempting to 
smuggle any merchandise, to examine such person or per¬ 
sons, and any package of any kind in his or their posses¬ 
sion. 

They are also required to stop any person who may 
attempt to go on board of the vessel to which they are as 
signed in the night, and to satisfy themselves that such 
person has the right or may properly be allowed to go on 
board. 

They are also required to keep a strict watch upon any 
small boat which may come to or near any wharf or vessel 
at which they are assigned, and to take all necessary pre¬ 
cautions to prevent smuggling by means of such boats. 

Night Inspectors have the right to arrest any person or 
persons in the act of smuggling foreign merchandise, and 
to call for the assistance of the Police or of Citizens to aid 
them in so doing, and to seize, take possession of, and secure 
any merchandise which has been smuggled or landed 
illegally from any vessel during the night. 

Should any arrest or seizure be made by Night Inspectors 
the facts shall be promptly reported to the Captain of the 
watch, and the merchandise seized must be deposited 
in the seizure room of the Custom-house the next morning, 
and reports thereof made, as required in cases of seizure by 
the Day Inspectors. 

If Day Inspectors are dilatory in relieving the Night In- 
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spectors at the proper time in the morning, the facts must 
he reported to the Captain of the Watch, who will transmit 
the same to the Surveyor. 

When two Night Inspectors are stationed on the same 
charge, both must remain on duty at the place specified 
by the Captain of the Watch until they are properly re¬ 
lieved. 

Night Inspectors reporting late for duty, or absent with¬ 
out leave, will have their pay deducted for the night so late 
or absent, and will not he permitted to go on duty with¬ 
out the order of the Surveyor. 

Night Inspectors absent by reason of sickness, must fur¬ 
nish proof of the fact to the Surveyor, otherwise their pay 
will he deducted for the time absent. 

When leave of absence is desired by any Night Inspector, 
his written application therefor must he checked by the 
Captain before being presented to the Surveyor. 

Any neglect of duty, violation of law or orders, or con¬ 
duct unbecoming an Officer, will subject the offender to 
suspension and removal from office. 


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